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title: 'Fixing Safari iCloud syncing'
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date: '2022-05-28'
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draft: false
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tags: [apple, ios, macos]
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summary: "Safari not syncing history, tabs or its landing page? Here's a fix."
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---
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I've been having an intermittent issue with Safari failing to sync any data via iCloud that you would normally expect — history, tabs, bookmarks and the landing page were all behaving independently despite iCloud syncing being enabled.<!-- excerpt -->
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These steps fixed the issue, finally, on my devices:
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1. Open a terminal and run `defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1`
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2. Quit Safari
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3. Open Safari, navigate to the new `Debug` menu and select `Sync iCloud History`
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4. Run `defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 0` to disable the `Debug` menu[^1]
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5. Disable Safari in the iCloud settings of each of your devices
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6. Reboot each of your devices
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7. Enable Safari in the iCloud settings of each of your devices
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Cross your fingers and hope for the best, but sync should settle down and start working again. I'd contend that none of these steps _should_ be necessary, but here we are.
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[^1]: Unless you want to keep it.
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