{"id":38182,"date":"2023-01-18T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38182"},"modified":"2023-01-18T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:46:24","slug":"icloud-syncing-limitations-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/18\/icloud-syncing-limitations-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Syncing Limitations &#038; Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/netnewswire.com\/help\/iCloud\">NetNewsWire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/netnewswire.com\/help\/iCloud\">\n<p>With Apple&rsquo;s limits, sync times can take hours and hours as they force limits on data transfer. The exact amount of time is dependent on the amount of data you have in iCloud.<\/p>\n<p>Larger numbers of unread articles can cause a lot of data to be stored in iCloud. This is because we have to sync the article content of unread items.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with long sync times can be a little tricky on iPhones and iPads. These devices work hard to preserve battery life and don&rsquo;t work well with long running processes. If you switch away from NetNewsWire or let your devices display go to sleep, you won&rsquo;t complete a long running sync.<\/p>\n<p>Our advice is do the following procedure right before you go to bed[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I find that syncing between Macs just works, even with a ton of data. With my iPhone, the app would always get stuck. After I removed some large feeds and marked some old posts as read, syncing did eventually complete, and it&rsquo;s been quick to update ever since.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/18\/reading-twitter-and-mastodon-in-netnewswire\/\">Reading Twitter and Mastodon in NetNewsWire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/29\/netnewswire-6-0-for-mac\/\">NetNewsWire 6.0 for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/cloudkit-impressions-from-a-netnewswire-developer\/\">CloudKit Impressions From a NetNewsWire Developer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetNewsWire: With Apple&rsquo;s limits, sync times can take hours and hours as they force limits on data transfer. The exact amount of time is dependent on the amount of data you have in iCloud. Larger numbers of unread articles can cause a lot of data to be stored in iCloud. This is because we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-18T16:44:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"206e5e24-793b-48df-86d1-80155566a6a4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-18T16:46:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIG5eJHk7SN-G0YAVVWampA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[916,16,31,2185,26,30,32,2223,392,269],"class_list":["post-38182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloudkit","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-netnewswire","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38186,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38182\/revisions\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}