iOS Auto-Sync not working

Most days on ios I find TF stuck on sync sending and I have to close and reopen the file and it syncs straight away? Using iCloud….

If you make a change or add a new record on your iOS device, go to the Fauxton interface where the list of databases is, then refresh the screen. Do you see the # of Docs column increase when you do that? I just tested it and for me it’s working. If I add a new record and make a change, I can see that column incrementing without me having to do anything on the Sync Settings screen such as signing out or in again, since I have Auto-Sync enabled.

No. Even if the database is encrypted, the data inside CouchDB is not. The connection to the CouchDB server on your own network may not be encrypted unless you’re using SSL and have setup the certificate correctly.

So I just tested directly modifying a document in the Fauxton interface in CouchDB. I edited the name of a form. I had the document opened on my iPhone. A few moments after I changed the form name in the JSON of the document in Fauxton, the form name changed automatically on iOS. I didn’t have to do anything at all. That’s because I had auto-sync enabled. I didn’t have to sign-out and sign-in again. I also tried closing the document in Tap Forms first, then changing the form name in Fauxton, then opening the document in Tap Forms and moments after I opened the document in Tap Forms, it synced and got the updated form name.

So I’m really not sure why it’s not syncing for you.

If you close the document on iOS and re-open it, does it sync changes you made to the Mac version then?

For me every time I start TF, it starts syncing to my CouchDB instance without any changes required. I usually start up TF on my iOS devices and watch to see until they finish sync to make sure it’s fully consistent before making any changes. Once it’s caught up on all of the changes, it’ll generally sit there silently polling for changes or pushing new changes as they’re made. Depending on how far back a device is for a particular document that can take under a minute or up to ten minutes when I’m pulling tens of thousands of changes with attachments.

When you’re using CouchDB (and maybe the Peer-To-Peer), there should be a number included with the sync message that should slowly go up over time as it pulls records down. Do you see the number?

On the desktop it’ll be at the bottom right with two timestamps for last uploaded and last downloaded (you’ll need to click on it to see the value).

I have noticed if I have lots of attachments that sometimes it can take a moment even on the same network to pull down the changes but generally it slowly makes progress over time.