Keep Safari in sync across your devices with iCloud

With iCloud, your Safari browsing experience stays consistent across all your devices.

What syncs with iCloud

When you set up iCloud for Safari, the following information is stored in iCloud and stays up to date on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac:

Bookmarks: Your saved bookmarks, including folders and organization. Bookmarks also sync to Windows devices with iCloud for Windows. Bookmarks are archived automatically, so you can restore an earlier version from iCloud.com if needed.
Reading List: Articles and webpages you’ve saved to read later
History: Websites you’ve visited
Open tabs: Browser tabs you have open, so you can continue browsing on another device
Tab Groups: Collections of tabs you’ve organized together. You can also share Tab Groups with friends and family who use iCloud for real-time collaboration.
Profiles: Separate browsing profiles you’ve created (such as Work or Personal), including each profile’s bookmarks, history, and Tab Groups
Settings: Your Safari preferences, including start page customizations, background images, and per-site settings (excluding privacy-sensitive settings like camera and location access)
Extensions: Which Safari extensions you have installed and whether each extension is turned on or off. Extensions aren’t installed automatically—you need to install each extension on every device. Extensions that are turned on elsewhere appear in the On Other Devices section, where you can install them with one tap or click.

Because your information is stored in iCloud, changes you make on one device automatically appear on all your other devices. For example:

Bookmark a new website on your iPhone, and it appears on your Mac.
Remove an item from your Reading List on your iPad, and it’s removed everywhere.
Open a new tab on your Mac, and you can continue viewing it on your iPhone.
Create a profile for work browsing, and it’s available on all your devices.
Change your start page background image, and it updates across devices.
Turn on an extension on your Mac, and you can quickly install it on your iPhone.

You always see the most up-to-date version of your browsing data, no matter which device you’re using.

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