• Read Me First
• Introduction
• Quick Start
• Sync Photos and Videos across Devices
• Sync a Photo Library across Devices
• Send Photos and Videos to Others
• Broadcast and Share Photo Albums
• Choose a File Sharing Method
• Use OS X File Sharing
• Sync Files and Folders across Devices
• Sync Folders with Others
• Broadcast Download Links
• Send Files to Others
• Share Documents with Others
• Send Contacts to Others
• Sync Contacts across Devices
• Sync Contacts with Others
• Broadcast Calendar Events
• Sync Calendars and Reminders across Devices
• Sync Calendars and Reminders with Others
• Sync Email across Devices
• Share Optical Discs with Other Macs
• Share Printers on Your Local Network
• Share Your iOS Device’s Internet Connection
• Share Your Mac’s Internet Connection
• Broadcast and Share Your Mac’s Screen
• Broadcast Your iOS Device’s Screen
• Broadcast Audio from Your iOS Device
• Share iPhone Calls and Texts across Devices
• Broadcast Browser Tabs to Other Devices
• Sync Browser Bookmarks across Devices
• Send Web Links to Others
• Sync Passwords across Devices
• Sync Passwords with Others
• Use iCloud Family Sharing
• Broadcast and Share Games and Game Stats
• Send Radio Stations to Others
• Send iTunes Playlists to Others
• Broadcast an iTunes Library in Your Home
• Share Tasks among Devices with Handoff
• About This Book
• About the Author
• About the Publisher
• Copyright and Fine Print

Broadcast Browser Tabs to Other Devices

At any moment, my three main Macs, my iPhone, and my two iPads might each have a dozen browser tabs open. I switch among devices constantly, and I’m forever wanting to look at a page I opened on device A while using device B. This used to be a major hassle for me, but now I can easily use any of several techniques to see pages that are open in windows or tabs on my other devices.

As long as I’m using Safari, iCloud offers a simple (if not entirely obvious) way to see the pages on all my devices. (There’s also a third-party Mac app that makes this considerably more convenient, especially if you’re not using Safari as your main Mac browser.) If I switch to Google Chrome, it can do roughly the same thing as long as I’m logged in with the same account on each device.

iCloud

First, set up iCloud to sync Safari tabs:

• Mac: Go to System Preferences > iCloud and make sure Safari is selected.
• iOS: Go to Settings > iCloud and make sure Safari is turned on.

That done, here’s how to see open windows or tabs on your other devices:

• Mac: In Safari, click the Pages button.
• iOS: In Safari, tap the Pages button, swipe upward ①, and then tap the title of a page from another device.

Google Chrome

First, make sure you’re signed in to the same Google account in Google Chrome on all your devices:

• Mac: Choose Google Chrome > Preferences, look at the top of the page, and make sure you’re signed in. (If not, click Sign In to Chrome.) Click Advanced Sync Settings and make sure Open Tabs is selected.
• iOS: First, tap the More icon > Settings ②, and verify that you’re signed in, or tap Sign In to Chrome. Then, tap your account name > your account name (again) and make sure Sync and Sync Everything are turned on.

Now, to see other devices’ open tabs:

• Mac: Click the hamburger icon > History and select a page title.
• iOS: In a new tab, tap Recent Tabs or the History icon at the bottom of the screen, followed by a page title.

Firefox

• Mac: Choose Tools > Set Up Sync and follow the prompts to create an account or sign in to an existing account. Then choose Firefox > Preferences > Sync and make sure Tabs is selected.
• iOS: Tap the cloud icon, tap Sign In, enter your credentials, and then tap Sign In again.

To load a tab from another copy of Firefox on a Mac, choose History > Tabs from Other Devices and double-click the page you want to open. On iOS, tap the cloud icon followed by the page you want to open.

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