Sync across devices with iCloud or Dropbox

How changes travel

visualOS saves on your device, writes into your connected folder, and reads changes delivered there by your cloud service. iCloud Drive, Dropbox and Google Drive control their own transfer timing. Sync is not realtime and has no fixed delivery deadline.

While you are editing a card or a checklist, a change arriving from another device waits until you finish; while a document is open, only a change to that document waits. Then both changes are combined.

Set up the same folder

1. Choose a cloud-backed folder

   On a supported desktop browser, use the local folder supplied by your cloud’s desktop app. A provider’s website is not a local folder connection.

2. Connect it on the first device

   Use Settings → Folder & Workspace. Wait for the folder save and check your cloud app’s upload status.

3. Connect the actual same folder on the next device

   Load its existing data. Check the account and location, not just the folder name.

4. Enable offline availability where supported

   Follow the provider instructions. Provider access differs by platform: the native Apple app uses its system folder integration; a mobile cloud app does not necessarily expose the same capabilities as a desktop folder.

Reading the status

“Saved on this device” and “Saved to folder” confirm different steps. Neither means “received on all devices”. Check status meanings and the cloud app before switching devices when immediate access matters.

Devices can be closed for days

You do not need to keep every device open. A closed device catches up after it is opened and the needed files arrive. Partial cloud delivery can leave media pending even after the canvas appears.

Older and newer app versions

All versions read and write the same workspace file, so a device that has not been updated yet keeps working with the folder. Update every device anyway: newer versions check each folder write, merge changes from two devices more carefully and recognise more of the conflict copies that cloud services create. An already-open browser tab may still run old code until you reload it, and native apps need their app update.

See conflict handling for what happens when two devices edit at the same time.