How to Send Safari Pages From One Device to Another

If you're using Safari on both your Mac and your iPad or iPhone, you can access open tabs across all your devices. This comes in handy when you want to continue your browsing session from your tablet to your laptop or vice versa.

Make Sure You're Logged into iCloud on Both Devices

To pick up where you left off in Safari on another Apple device, you'll need to be logged into the same iCloud account on both devices. Here's how to check, if you're not sure.

1. On the Mac, click iCloud in System Preferences.

2. Make sure Safari is checked in the iCloud window.

3. In iOS, open the Settings app.

4. Tap iCloud and make sure Safari is toggled on.

See Web Pages Open on Your Other Devices

Now you can see and open the web pages that are currently open on your other Mac or iOS devices. Although this feature has been around for awhile (since iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion), it's handy to know if you're new to Safari on either iOS or the Mac.

1. Tap the tabs icon in Safari. It looks like two overlapping squares.

2. Tap a webpage listed under your device's name.

This will open that web page in a new tab in Safari. The tab will still be open on the other device. On the Mac, you can also also hover your mouse pointer over a web page and click the X button to close the site on your other device.

"Hand Off" Web Pages in Safari Between Devices

Apple's Handoff feature, introduced with OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.10) works similarly to iCloud Tabs, but it instead sends only your current open tab in Safari to the other device using Bluetooth. It's more limited than iCloud Tabs, but quicker if you don't need to select which tab to open on your other device.

1. Again, make sure you're signed into the same iCloud account on both devices.

2. Make sure Bluetooth is enabled on both your devices. On the Mac, that setting is under System Preferences > Bluetooth. In iOS, it's under the Settings app > Bluetooth.

3a. To hand off on a Mac: