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MrAppleseed

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Original poster
Apr 26, 2010
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Hi all,

I’m using iOS 5 and I’m slightly annoyed by the sync behaviour from time to time.

Assuming, I’m on an airplane (no internet) and I’m reading an iBook on my iPad. Now, I set a bookmark, close the app and do something else. Then, later, I’m sitting somewhere, not having the iPad with me. Instead, I want to continue reading the book on my iPhone. The bookmark I set, however, isn’t on my iPhone yet – even though the iPad has been online in the meantime, just not with iBooks opened.

The same problem with iWork documents and other stuff.

Wouldn’t it make sense to have a single iCloud service that syncs all the data of all apps (Apple or non-Apple) as soon as there’s internet connection, no matter if the apps are open or not? Am I doing something wrong on iOS 5 or is this issue addressed in iOS 6 in some way? Or do I still have to open every single app to have their data synced?

Thanks for reading. :)
 
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