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After updating Firefox on iPhone, "send to device" works from phone to laptop but not the other way around

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Hi,

Just to start I'm not super tech savvy but I'll try my best to explain this. I have Firefox on my iPhone XR and MacBook Air. Both devices are up to date and as of today, Firefox is up to date on both. I've never had a problem using the "send tab to device" feature from phone to laptop or laptop to phone. After updating Firefox on my phone, I now can send a tab from the phone to my laptop, but not from the laptop to the phone even though it says "sent". I've tried signing in and out of Firefox on both, deleting both devices from my account and adding them back again, making sure notifications are on...just from Googling those were the main things suggested but I'm still having the same problem.

The only thing I can think of is that since the phone update, there is now another device showing in the list of connected devices called "Firefox iOS 98, iPhone." In the first image I attached, the circled "Firefox on iPhone" is what my phone has always been, but now there's this new one too. Last one is my laptop. As far as I can tell, the top two are the same thing. I tried deleting one or the other though, and both completely signed me out of Firefox on my phone. When I signed back in, both were there again. I can't seem to have one without the other! The second pic is what it looks like when I try to send a tab from my laptop. As you can see, only the "Firefox on iPhone" is showing up. The only thing I can think of is that the tabs from my laptop are being sent to this new weird "Firefox ioS 98, iPhone" that I can't delete or get to show up when trying to send from my laptop. I have double checked and the browser on my phone still lists "Firefox on iPhone" as the correct one for my device.

Any ideas at all? As I said, I'm not super tech savvy but I've tried all the basic fixes and I just cannot figure out why this is happening unless there's a bug which I hope is the case because at least it's not just me. Any help at all would be so appreciated!

Thank you!! Caroline

Hi, Just to start I'm not super tech savvy but I'll try my best to explain this. I have Firefox on my iPhone XR and MacBook Air. Both devices are up to date and as of today, Firefox is up to date on both. I've never had a problem using the "send tab to device" feature from phone to laptop or laptop to phone. After updating Firefox on my phone, I now can send a tab from the phone to my laptop, but not from the laptop to the phone even though it says "sent". I've tried signing in and out of Firefox on both, deleting both devices from my account and adding them back again, making sure notifications are on...just from Googling those were the main things suggested but I'm still having the same problem. The only thing I can think of is that since the phone update, there is now another device showing in the list of connected devices called "Firefox iOS 98, iPhone." In the first image I attached, the circled "Firefox on iPhone" is what my phone has always been, but now there's this new one too. Last one is my laptop. As far as I can tell, the top two are the same thing. I tried deleting one or the other though, and both completely signed me out of Firefox on my phone. When I signed back in, both were there again. I can't seem to have one without the other! The second pic is what it looks like when I try to send a tab from my laptop. As you can see, only the "Firefox on iPhone" is showing up. The only thing I can think of is that the tabs from my laptop are being sent to this new weird "Firefox ioS 98, iPhone" that I can't delete or get to show up when trying to send from my laptop. I have double checked and the browser on my phone still lists "Firefox on iPhone" as the correct one for my device. Any ideas at all? As I said, I'm not super tech savvy but I've tried all the basic fixes and I just cannot figure out why this is happening unless there's a bug which I hope is the case because at least it's not just me. Any help at all would be so appreciated! Thank you!! Caroline
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