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Numbers is not Syncing with iCloud Drive

I am running iOS 8.0.2 on an iPhone 6 and iPad Air along with OS X 10 Yoesemite on the Public Beta ver 4.

Any Numbers Spreadsheet created on any of the 3 devices does not sync across all other devices. I have tried a number of different fixes including uploading directly to iCloud Drive via Safari, creating a sheet in each of the 3 separately, creating a sheet on one then emailing to myself and saving to Numbers, and a few other attempts to get the sheets to sync.

iPhone 6, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 6, 2014 12:42 PM

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gatorpk1

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Posted on Oct 6, 2014 5:11 PM

Try creating a new document in the app on your IOS device. After I did that, i.e. a new random spreadsheet in numbers, all of my documents downloaded.

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Scoopy

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8 points

Mar 4, 2016 2:42 AM in response to gatorpk1

Thanks for the tip all works fine now!

dmians

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12 points

Apr 14, 2016 12:13 AM in response to Scoopy

how did you make it work? it doesn't to me.

santra

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8 points

Aug 30, 2016 8:42 AM in response to dmians

Scoopy tried gatorpk1's "trick," which is to create a new document on a device. It doesn't work for me, either.

I've been battling Apple for three years on this. I've reduced my iCloud Drive, Numbers folder to ONE Numbers document, 400K. Whenever I edit it on one device, it takes HOURS for the other devices to update. I am not making this up. The whole thing is ridiculous.

Yes, I've tried deleting all iCloud documents on ALL devices, rebuilding all of them, etc. I've bought a brand new iPad. I've reimaged devices.

I could email it to myself faster. I could walk it to a different room on a floppy disk and that would be faster.

Nothing works.

Sep 5, 2016 9:21 PM in response to santra

Had this problem too - did the 'trick' and created a new file on my iPhone, did not add any data, exited out of the file and within a minute the other numbers files synced. Not sure what is going on, but the tricked worked for me.

System:

OS X 10.11.1

Numbers: 3.6.1

iOS 9.3.5

Number: 2.6.2

Sep 21, 2016 8:26 AM in response to cmaus

Worked great Cmaus! Thanks! Apple should put som "Sync Now".button somewhere!

JMLC

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4 points

Nov 7, 2016 5:10 AM in response to gatorpk1

Excellent! It was as simple as that! I just created a new doc. Suddenly all documents started updating process.

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards

Joao Chumbo M.D.

Estoril, Portugal

Numbers is not Syncing with iCloud Drive