How to share Safari tabs across different devices with iCloud Tabs
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What did we do before tabs? And now you can automatically share them across your devices. Having Safari be able to open the same tabs on all your Apple devices is hugely convenient, yet Apple hides the feature away. Here's how to find and make use of it.
This is specifically about what are called iCloud tabs — and they are not the same as Tab Groups. If you use Tab Groups in Safari on one Apple device, the feature is on with the same tabs on all your devices. In theory, iCloud tabs is always on too, but you have to dig further to find it, and you have to make sure that it is enabled.
To take advantage of this Safari tab synchronization, you'll first need to check that the feature is turned on. It's quick and simple to do, but does vary fractionally depending on whether you're using a Mac or an iPhone, or iPad. To enable iCloud Tabs on a Mac:.
To enable iCloud Tabs on an iPad or an iPhone:. With iCloud Tabs enabled on all of your Apple devices, your tabs are being shared across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad — but you may not see them. You have to take specific steps to see these shared tabs and while it's not difficult, it's enough of a chore that you can tend to not bother.
It's worth looking for the shared tabs. Especially if you've ever come away from your Mac and realised precisely the page you needed was on that and not your iPhone. On the iPhone or iPad:. On the Mac, open Safari. Then click on the icon for navigation pane (a square with dots down the left) which is at top left. At the very bottom of the screen, there will now be an iCloud Tabs button.
