# Unable to cram untagged review cards in AnkiMobile 26.10

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 12, 2026, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416 "2026-11-12T08:58:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Triksa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Triksa](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Triksa)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416/1 "2026-11-12T08:58:08Z")

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Hello,

I’m relatively new to Anki, so I may be missing something.

Until recently, I could use Custom Study to cram review cards (including mature cards) from a selected deck, even if they had no tags.

After a recent update, the Custom Study interface changed, and the option now appears to require tags. Since my review cards are untagged, I can no longer cram them as before.

The cards are still available in the Browser, and I can study them using a manually created filtered deck with `deck:current`. However, this is inconvenient because I regularly switch between multiple decks.

This issue occurs on both my iPhone and iPad, running AnkiMobile 26.10. AnkiDroid on Android still works as before.

A similar issue was previously reported and fixed in AnkiDroid, although I’m not sure whether the cause is the same:

> <https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/20970>
>
> 8### Checked for duplicates?
> 
> \- \[x\] This issue is not a duplicate
> 
> \### Does it a…lso happen in the desktop version?
> 
> \- \[\] This bug does not occur in the latest version of Anki Desktop
> 
> \### What are the steps to reproduce this bug?
> 
> Custom Study \> Study by card state or Tag 
> 
> Regardless of which option I choose, the app only creates custom decks using cards in the \*\*New\*\* state. Because of this, it is not possible to create custom decks with options such as:
> 
> \- Due cards only
> \- All review cards
> \- Review cards in random order
> 
> \## Actual behavior
> 
> No matter which option is selected, the resulting custom deck only contains New cards.
> 
> 
> \### Expected behaviour
> 
> 
> 
> The custom deck should be created according to the option selected in the menu.
> 
> For example, if I select \*\*Due cards only\*\*, the deck should contain only due cards.
> 
> 
> 
> \### Debug info
> 
> \`\`\`text
> AnkiDroid Version = 2.24.0 (ebcf8e0e34921628b9b8a496c66ffd4adbb3705f)  
> Backend Version = 0.1.64-anki25.09.2 (25.09.2 3890e12c9e48c028c3f12aa58cb64bd9f8895e30)  
> Android Version = 12 (SDK 31)  
> ProductFlavor = play  
> Device Info = Xiaomi | Xiaomi | venus | venus\_eea | M2011K2G | qcom  
> WebView Info = \[com.google.android.webview | 772711203\]: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; M2011K2G Build/SKQ1.211006.001; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/147.0.7727.112 Mobile Safari/537.36  
> ACRA UUID = 4c77b14f-ead7-4ecb-8018-e93d0332801f  
> FSRS = 5.1.0 (Enabled: true)  
> Crash Reports Enabled = true
> \`\`\`
> 
> \### (Optional) Anything else you want to share?
> 
> \## Description
> 
> In the custom deck creation menu, the selected option from the dropdown does not seem to be respected.
> 
> Regardless of which option I choose, the app only creates custom decks using cards in the \*\*New\*\* state. Because of this, it is not possible to create custom decks with options such as:
> 
> \- Due cards only
> \- All review cards
> \- Review cards in random order
> 
> \## Expected behavior
> 
> The custom deck should be created according to the option selected in the menu.
> 
> For example, if I select \*\*Due cards only\*\*, the deck should contain only due cards.
> 
> 
> \## Actual behavior
> 
> No matter which option is selected, the resulting custom deck only contains New cards.
> .
> 
> \### Research
> 
> \- \[x\] I have checked the \[manual\](https://ankidroid.org/docs/manual.html) and the \[FAQ\](https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/FAQ) and could not find a solution to my issue
> \- \[\] (Optional) I have confirmed the issue is not resolved in the latest alpha release (\[instructions\](https://docs.ankidroid.org/manual.html#betaTesting))
> 
> 
> \<img width="1440" height="1519" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e327108-a865-4d40-8726-55e556bf36de" /\>
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> \<img width="1440" height="1145" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5469ec48-d4a8-4311-9737-6b0e00ab3135" /\>
> 
> \<img width="1440" height="2036" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1fbc0225-e94e-4eb8-870f-710876a5a44f" /\>
> 
> It should be like this (as in the previous version, before the dropdown was changed to a filterable dropdown)
> 
> \<img width="1440" height="1428" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a3032d31-7042-4f21-95e9-bd8789b6ffda" /\>
> 
> \<img width="1440" height="1420" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fe134ddd-c5df-4960-8a1c-802f25bedb15" /\>

Is this an intentional change or a bug? Is there a way to restore the previous behavior?

Thanks for your help!

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**Author:** ![ZornHadNoChoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/zornhadnochoice/32/28874_2.png) [@ZornHadNoChoice](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/ZornHadNoChoice)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416/2 "2026-11-12T10:06:00Z")

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So in short, custom study by card state or tags requires selecting at least one tag even if none are available?

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**Author:** ![Triksa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Triksa](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Triksa)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416/3 "2026-11-12T11:11:41Z")

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Yes, that’s correct.

Previously, when I selected the second option from the bottom (“Cram seen cards with certain tags” in the current version), I was able to randomly cram all the previously studied cards in the current deck, even if none of them had any tags.

If I remember correctly, this option did not previously include the words “with certain tags.”

However, in the current version, no tags are available to select, and tapping “Done” results in the error message shown in the second screenshot.

Has this behavior changed intentionally, or could this be a bug?

 ![B5B5A240-EF45-4E86-B970-2EC5A4264996_1_201_a](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/c/0/c0eb2c4347042243c777347754656bd87289dac3.jpeg)

 ![4B76B457-252E-4FCF-90A3-E3CEF7534CF5_1_201_a](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/a/e/ae17d7927709883e7e3980ff6aa36e9974b2968a.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416/4 "2026-11-12T16:54:42Z")

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> [@Triksa](#):
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> this option did not previously include the words “with certain tags.”

That string definitely didn’t change in this release.

> [@Triksa](#):
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> I can study them using a manually created filtered deck with `deck:current`.

Are you sure that deck has any _active_ cards? The search you would use for that in Browse (or in a Filtered deck) is `-is:new deck:current`.

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**Author:** ![thomaswalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@thomaswalker](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/thomaswalker)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416/5 "2026-11-12T17:50:55Z")

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**Post date:** [November 13, 2026, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/unable-to-cram-untagged-review-cards-in-ankimobile-26-10/74416/6 "2026-11-13T09:19:02Z")

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You’re right about the string. I checked screenshots from older versions and confirmed that I was mistaken. Sorry for the confusion.

I also confirmed that the deck contains 21 active cards using `-is:new deck:current` in Browse.

However, Custom Study still gives an error when I select “Cram seen cards with certain tags” without selecting any tags. Previously, this worked even without tags.