share game progress across devices?

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  1. twisted-pixel, Apr 15, 2012

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    Hi,

    there are a few games I have on my ipad that I also have on my iphone. When I'm out and about, I play them on my phone, at home I play them on my pad. However, is there a way to sync progress of a game between the two devices? I don't want to complete a difficult level on my phone, only to have to then try and complete it again on my pad. I guess a sync would work (as long as I did it in the right order, ie latest one first) but just wondered if there was another way I could do it automatically.

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  2. hchavarria, Apr 16, 2012

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    I think the only way this would work was if the developer used iCloud for data storage. Other than that I believe there is no way to do this.
     
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  3. Beerstalker, Apr 24, 2012

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    This annoys me too. I wish there was a way they could use Gamecenter to do this. Pretty annoying that I was 3/4 of the way through Angry Birds with 3 stars on every level, etc. and then upgraded from an iPod touch to an iPhone and had to start all over again.
     
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  4. dancj, Apr 24, 2012

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    You don't need to lose progress when you get a new device. You can either:

    1 - restore your new device from a backup of the old device. This will bring all of your save games across

    Or

    2 - use iExplorer on your PC (or iPhone explorer - I think it's called - on a mac) to copy the save game files from the old device to the new one.


    Both of these are one-off solutions though. If you want it to be seamless then you have to have a game that uses iCloud - and most games don't. Infinity Blade 2 and Batman: Arkham Lockdown both do though.
     
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