HOT 262: Syncing Bookmarks Between Chrome and Safari - Chrome & Safari Bookmark Sync
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Eric asks Mikah how he can keep his Chrome and Safari bookmarks in sync across his Windows machines and Apple devices after losing the home PC he relied on to make it work.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands-On Tech, let's take a look at syncing bookmarks between our Windows machine and our Apple devices. |
| 0:09.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello and welcome to Hands-on Tech. I am Micah Sargent, and this is the show where I take your tech questions and do my diddley dog on best to answer them. |
| 0:27.8 | Today's tech question comes in from Eric. |
| 0:31.0 | Eric writes in with the following. |
| 0:32.7 | For a long time, I've had a home Windows PC running a few always-on services on my home network. One task this PC did was run Apple ICloud for Windows to sync bookmarks from Google Chrome, which I use on my home Windows PC, work Windows laptop, and my personal Mac with Safari, which I use on my iPhone and iPad. I prefer Safari on mobile due to the native iOS integration. Recently, my |
| 0:55.8 | Home Windows PC failed and I've decided not to replace it. I've lost the sync between Chrome |
| 1:01.0 | and Safari. I've temporarily installed Chrome on iOS, but I don't care for it and I want to |
| 1:05.8 | move back to Safari. Without the Home Windows PC, I have nowhere to run I Cloud for Windows |
| 1:10.7 | to sync Chrome with Safari, and I can't find a suitable replacement, I have nowhere to run ICloud for Windows to sync Chrome with Safari, |
| 1:12.6 | and I can't find a suitable replacement. |
| 1:14.6 | I'd love to move this sync to my Synology NAS. |
| 1:17.6 | Is there any Docker image or built-in Synology app to handle the sync? |
| 1:21.6 | If not, what other options can you suggest, short of continuing to use Chrome on iOS? Well, I've got some good, good news for you, Eric. |
| 1:31.5 | You really don't need to spin up a Docker container |
| 1:34.9 | or go and find some Synology package for this |
| 1:37.8 | because it turns out there's a very simple solution you can use. |
| 1:42.5 | It is actually made by Apple, and when I came across this, I said, |
| 1:48.5 | because I'm looking it up and someone says, use this tool. And I said, that's got to be made by a |
| 1:53.4 | third party. I've never heard of this. No, this tool is made by Apple. Apple offers an ICloud |
| 1:59.3 | bookmarks extension for Chrome that does exactly what ICloud for Windows |
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