Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that frustrate you

Re:Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that f... by vehemenz on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:04AM (#30273417)

Safari needs a way to actively sync tabs between iCloud devices. I'm not sure how it syncs now, but it does not work correctly. On desktop Safari, I have tabs from my phone that I visited six months ago.

The only solution to sync them correctly, as far as I know, is to log in/out of iCloud on each device.

Edit: this works - rm ~/Library/Safari/CloudTabs*

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Re:Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that f... by tomaskafka on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:15AM (#30273549)

That's just a subset of general iCloud syncing problems - I have these kind of problems with iCloud Drive, Notes, Podcasts, Music ...

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Re:Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that f... by btmoore on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:30AM (#30273740)

Tab groups are super reliable. It's strange that device syncing broke right around the same time that tab groups came out.

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Re:Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that f... by jghn on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:26PM (#30275314)

I found tab groups to be the opposite of super reliable until I read the workaround was to disable device synching.

Pro: Tab groups are now super reliable Con: I no longer have device synching

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Re:Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that f... by vehemenz on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:01AM (#30274221)

Indeed they are. Thanks for clarifying that.

I use a group called "Phone" to work around the syncing problems I've had.

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Re:Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that f... by vehemenz on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:07AM (#30287101)

Edit 2: Now my tab groups are not syncing correctly. I have a tab open in one of my groups, and it keeps re-opening no matter how many times.

Apple really needs to dogfood their own browser if they want to get serious about fixing these bugs.

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