# New iOS install seems to reverse cards (Resolved - was user error)

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**Created:** [December 31, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-ios-install-seems-to-reverse-cards-resolved-was-user-error/25828 "2022-12-31T05:36:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![JazzAndBread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@JazzAndBread](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/JazzAndBread)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-ios-install-seems-to-reverse-cards-resolved-was-user-error/25828/1 "2022-12-31T05:36:48Z")

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I am an Anki newbie, so I’d be very happy to be set straight.

What I’m seeing is - on both imported decks and a very simple 2-note deck I created - that the iOS version is showing cards in reverse order from the Mac OS version. I’ve got current versions of both.

So to be clear - I have a simple deck with “Front” containing French, and “Back” containing English - and on the desktop preview (and study) shows the French first, and the English as the answer - and on my iPad, it shows the English as the question, and the French as the answer.

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**Author:** ![JazzAndBread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@JazzAndBread](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/JazzAndBread)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-ios-install-seems-to-reverse-cards-resolved-was-user-error/25828/2 "2022-12-31T16:03:54Z")

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I think I figured out what the issue was.

1. in one case, I was looking at a deck that had both front and back cards, so I was sometimes seeing one versus the other (working as designed)
2. in another case, it wasn’t an issue with order - I was confused with why editing the cards for a deck on the Mac didn’t seem to change them for iOS - but there was no inconsistency, the changes weren’t showing on the Mac either. Something I don’t understand in terms of a difference between editing the card from the browser, vs editing a card in the middle of studying it (the latter worked, the former did not - maybe it’s because of this being a child deck)
3. in the last case - my own super small deck - the order was fine - I was confused why the sound was not autoplaying on the front. Enabling the button Preferences-\>Review-\>Always Duck + Ignore Mute actually solved the “issue”

So all in all - user confusion exacerbated by my excitement in getting rolling on Italian/French study in Anki. All is well now 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-ios-install-seems-to-reverse-cards-resolved-was-user-error/25828/3 "2023-01-30T16:03:56Z")

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