Hey everyone! I’m super curious what everyone’s experience with sync across Apple devices is (excluding Web).
In my own experience sync is often annoyingly slow and I wonder if there are issues on my end or if it’s just the standard experience and my expectations are wrong.
Basically, for me there is no such thing asbackground sync. Every time I open the app on my iPhone after editing a note on my mac I have to wait for up to a minute for the sync to start and complete, otherwise I get hit with conflicts. On my iPad where I don’t open Bear as often notes are often months out of sync and I have to wait for 10+ minutes for the sync to complete (the app has to remain open otherwise the process is interrupted).
Have you also experienced this or does the sync work better for you? Please share!
(I have read the very outdated-looking sync troubleshooting guide and everything seems to be set up accordingly on my end)
I have the same experience, background sync as I would expect it (syncing my notes on a device that is locked, but has a network connectivity), is not working at all.
I am very interested in the response of one of the Devs here.
Yes, this has been my experience as well - background sync does not occur. That said, when I open the app, sync occurs very quickly (much faster than other apps I’ve tried like Obsidian, and more reliably than Apple Notes which I’ve experienced issues with lately).
I have tested the background sync on iOS and it seems to work. Unfortunately, the background execution time provided by iOS to apps is not under developers’ control, as it’s designed to preserve the device battery. It can also kill the background process if another event occurs or if it’s taking too much time. Also, when in energy-saving mode/low battery, iOS is less likely to provide any background execution.
Just in case, check the following options
Checking Settings > General > Background App Refresh
I remember managing to have it work after turning the switch off/on, but this was definitely on older iOS releases