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🌩️ Changes are not synced to other devices via iCloud

Note

Whenever you add or modify a word, or when you do a quiz, your changes and progress are automatically synced in the background.
When you make large changes, like importing word lists, or when you set up a new device, it can take a few minutes for changes to propagate across all your devices.

✅ Syncing Checklist

If your words or progress are not synced to other devices correctly, please try the following steps to resolve it:

  • ✈️ Double check you are connected to the Internet and flight mode is off
  • 🪫 Make sure you are not in low power / energy saving mode, because the system might pause iCloud syncing
  • ⛅️ You need to be connected to the same iCloud account on all your devices, and Wokabulary must have permission to access iCloud. You can check for both in System Settings → iCloud
  • 🖇️ In Wokabulary, double-check in Settings → Languages that you don’t have two vocabularies with the same language combination. While you can have two vocabularies with the same language combination, they will not sync with each other. In this case, you might want to delete or rename one of the two languages.
  • 🔀 Make sure that you have selected the exact same vocabulary (language combination) on all devices. Direction matters. For example, “French — German” is not the same as “German — English” and they won't be synced with each other.
  • ☕️ Often it really just takes a bit longer. Just get a coffee and check back in a few minutes.

⌚️ Apple Watch

Because watchOS tries to save energy, syncing to the Apple Watch can take longer than on other devices. Often the syncing is paused when Wokabulary is in background.

To speed up syncing, it helps to keep Wokabulary open and active for a while (for example by regularly turning the digital crown).

🏁 Initial Syncing

When setting up a new device, it can take 1–2 minutes for the initial sync to complete.

In case you have deleted vocabularies, sometimes other devices don’t properly recognize this and still try to load iCloud data. After about 2 minutes, the loading screen will show an option to create a new empty vocabulary.

🔨 Enforce full re-sync

If your vocabularies, words or progress just won't sync across devices even after trying everything else, there is an option to perform a full resync in Settings → Support → Resync with iCloud. Please use it like this:

  1. Perform the Resync on a device that has all the data you expect
  2. Wait until this resync is complete (it can take several minutes)
  3. Perform the Resync on the device that is missing data
  4. Wait until this resync is complete (it will again take several minutes)

Note that this is a last resort action. It will re-download and then re-upload all data to iCloud. Accordingly it takes quite long. However, then all data should be in sync again.