Do you have to enter a username and password every time you want to Sync your Profile? Because i do What is the purpose of the profile, is it just to download your .apkg Flash Cards from your other devices? Is it to Put newly added cards in the correct deck? If you add a Deck to one Device, shoul…

An AnkiWeb account allows you to sync your collection – all of your notes, cards, decks, review history, scheduling, deck Options, media, many Preferences, etc. – to the AnkiWeb servers, and from there to other devices where you use Anki – Syncing with AnkiWeb - Anki Manual . You can also study your…

Question about syncing Anki across multiple devices (single profile) I’m trying to understand how Anki is supposed to sync decks, settings, progress, and right/wrong answers across multiple devices, and I’m having trouble finding clear documentation that walks through this end-to-end. I’ve seen ar…

[image] gtate6997: Does Anki support syncing one profile across multiple devices using AnkiWeb? Yes. That is the most used feature used by people that use sync. [image] gtate6997: Is creating a custom sync server actually required for normal personal use? No. [image] gtate6997: I…

Ill dig into that link you gave me. Should I have re-enter my login information on my iPhone and IPad every time I want to sync between devices? If not, I’m doing something wrong and I can’t figure out what it is.

[image] gtate6997: Should I have re-enter my login information on my iPhone and IPad every time I want to sync between devices? If not, I’m doing something wrong and I can’t figure out what it is. No, when you login to your Anki account in the AnkiMobile app, the app remembers your login info…

Your right, it does remember it now and everything else. I was trying to figure out how the program worked on 3 different devices at the same time and wasn’t syncing before I stopped using one device and went to another. That did the trick, thank you so much.

What is the purpose of a Anki login account and Profile?

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gtate6997 January 12, 2026, 8:35pm 9

That cleared everything up. Thank you.

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