Set up iCloud Tabs
Complete these steps on all of the devices where you want to share tabs.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud.
- Make sure that Safari is on.
On your Mac
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and click Apple ID. Then click iCloud.
- Click to turn on Safari.
If you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and click iCloud. Click to turn on Safari.
Open a tab
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Open Safari.
- Tap the Tabs
button. - Scroll to the bottom of the list. Below the images of tabs open on your device, you see a list of open tabs from your other supported devices.
- Tap the one you want to open.
On your Mac
- Open Safari.
- Click the Tabs button. Below the images of tabs open on your Mac, you see a list of open tabs from your other supported devices.
- Tap the one you want to open.
Close a tab
Quitting Safari, putting your device to sleep, or turning off your device doesn't remove a tab from the list.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Open Safari.
- Tap the Tabs button.
- Scroll to the bottom of the list. Below the images of tabs open on your device, you see a list of open tabs from your other supported devices.
- Swipe left on the tab that you want to close, then tap Close.
On your Mac
- Open Safari.
- Click the Tabs button. Below the images of tabs open on your Mac, you see a list of open tabs from your other supported devices.
- Hover the pointer over the tab that you want to close, then click the Close
button that appears.
If you can't set up or use iCloud Tabs
iCloud Tabs works between devices running iOS 13 or iPadOS or later and macOS Mojave 10.14.4 or later, or between devices running iOS 12 or earlier and macOS Mojave 10.14.3 or earlier.
- If your iCloud Tabs aren't updating, make sure that you're running the latest iOS or iPadOS on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and the latest macOS on your Mac.
- Check that you signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID on all of your devices.
Learn more
- iCloud bookmarks keep your Safari bookmarks the same across all of your Macs and iOS devices.
- In OS X Yosemite or later, you can also use Handoff to move Safari pages between your Mac and your iOS devices.
- Learn how to set up and use iCloud for Windows.