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kepardue Author

Level 1

18 points

iCloud not Syncing Documents/App Data

I got an iPhone 5s this morning, and had previously updated my iPad and iPhone 4S to iOS 7 two days ago. I've noticed today that iCloud seems to not be syncing properly for me. Day One, which uses iCloud for syncing data, perpetually tries to upload from the iOS device but doesn't seem to be reaching the server. Similarly, when I create an entry on one of the two Macs that I sync with iCloud they do not appear on one another. Furthermore, when loading Pages in iOS on the new phone, I don't see any of my documents. I see many of them on the Mac, which I assume are locally cached. I've turned off Document syncing and turned it back on, and have restarted all devices a number of times. Is there anything I can do besides wait for Apple to straighten itself out? Is anyone else having a similar problem?

Posted on Sep 20, 2013 8:20 PM

108 replies

Mar 13, 2014 10:00 AM in response to Lowbflat

My issue is one of everything was working fluid between my iPad, iPhone 5 and macbook pro. iCloud synced quickly between all three. All are updated. Even now iCloud syncs fine between iPad and iPhone but I am having issues with my macbook getting in on the action. I changed internet providers yesterday and it was still working after that but today all of a sudden it is not updating any changes being made to my pages documents as it did before. It appears my macbook is not communicating with iCloud as it should but it says I am connected.

Dec 9, 2014 5:09 PM in response to kepardue

I had the similar problem with one of my folders even though it had whole night to sync. Wasted my 2 hrs, i checked internet, rebooted my devices, logged in my icloud account to see if the document is there.

Then i thought to trigger open the document may help sync. And that did the trick.

I guess its like the Windows days where if something is not working, just close it and open it again. Atleast with OS X if we give it enough time to save or manually save the data/files, it doesn't loose things. ALSO I GUESS AS SOFTWARE ARE NOTHING BUT LINES OF CODE, i give benefit of doubt that it doesn't always get there. So triggering things makes it do what it should do.

Just a simple overview may help with the painstaking technology we have been coping with from last decade.

d.gervaz

Level 1

4 points

Dec 10, 2014 5:43 AM in response to kepardue

Hi, i'm really sorry to put this here but i dont know why it doesn let my start a new thread -.- please help me 😟

Wich is the difference between do a backup or simply use the "icloud photo library" (beta) in order to have photos on all my devices (an my future devices)?

I mean, the library will upload in the cloud after every pic taken, while the backup take hours and hours to be complete.

Also contact and email, are "backupable" without backup, I don't understand very well these differences.

Someone can help me?

Thanks 😉

iCloud not Syncing Documents/App Data