Pick up browsing right where you left off — on your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or Mac.
iCloud tabs makes your open Safari tabs available on all of your devices, so you can access the last websites you looked at anytime.
iCloud tabs in safari
If you have a Mac with Mountain Lion installed as your OS, as well as an iOS device with iOS 6, then you’re already set to enable iCloud tabs. You can view any open tabs in Safari from all of your supported devices that have iCloud Safari preferences enabled. I use iCloud tabs quite a lot myself. For instance, say I’m browsing an interesting article on my iPad, then realize I’m late for work and have to run out the door. When I get to work I can just whip out my iPhone (when the boss isn’t looking) and continue browsing the page I was last on while I was using my iPad.
If iCloud is not already set up on your device, it’s a very simple process to enable it. On your iOS device open the Settings app -> Go to iCloud -> and turn Safari on. To enable it on your Mac go to System preferences -> iCloud -> and check the Safari box.
You have to be logged in under the same Apple ID on each device. Also, Safari iCloud tabs do not work while in Private browsing mode.
All other cloud sharing works between my iPad mini and iPhone 5. Have no private browsing and safari is iCloud enabled on both. Turned on and off recyned, nothing gets it to do anything but give the message of what cloud tab is supposed to do. Help.
Hmmm… that is strange that it’s not working. I’m assuming your have iOS 6 installed on both devices correct?
Try some of these simple steps to see if any of it works:
1. First try closing out Safari on both devices. Then restart both devices. Open Safari, see if it’s working now. May take a couple seconds to sync.
2. Disable Safari in iCloud. Make sure safari is closed while doing this. Restart both your devices. Re-enable safari on both devices. Give it a minute or two.
3. Close all the tabs on both your devices, then follow step 1 again.
Did exactly what you described before I found this forum. Yes, both devices went from 5 to 6 with recent update.
I’m not entirely sure what it could be then, there are a few other things you could try that might work.
1. Turn private browsing on, go to any random site on both devices. Then turn private browsing off.
2. If you have icloud on your computer, turn it off. Close safari on it. Then re-enable it on your computer.
Hey there I’m having the same problem between my iPhone 5 and iPad 3. Tried everything but to no avail. All other iCloud synching is working except Safari.
I noticed when I reboot or respring and then open up Safari on the iPad where I am experiencing this issue, that it does display for me an *outdated* list of tabs from my other iCloud devices. Then subsequently after some time it will be perpetually empty (failing to sync).
This is happening to me too.. i’m getting out dated tabs from months ago… then it goes blank. Ive honestly tried everything (apart from hitting my 3 devices with a hammer) I can only think its because im jailbroken. (unphased – are you jailbroken too??)
I sometimes have the same issue. I’m not sure if it is something we can fix or if its on Apples end.
I was having the same problem, I was jailbroken as well. I restored my iPhone to remove the jailbreak, and voila the tabs synced up. I can see my iPad, and both my iPhones. Apple must be doing something that doesn’t like the jailbreak.
Strange, thanks for letting us know about this.