Anki Cloud Storage

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Why not iCloud Sync?

TL;DR Unfortunately, this wouldn’t be an improvement. There are two ways a user can experience a sync system: either the syncing is completely automated, or it has to be (more or less) manually triggered. For instance, if you turn on icloud sync, you usually don’t even need to actually trigger the sync. When a file is modified, it will automatically gets synced. This is possible because it will assume your are only modifying the file at one location: for each device, either you are modifying t…

Anki auto sync on IOS/IPADOS

iCloud is not practical - it would either require uploading/downloading your entire collection each time you synced (slow and bandwidth consuming), or it would require rewriting Anki’s data model to work with iCloud, which isn’t really possible, as Anki needs to work on more than just Apple devices.