Any suggestion on syncing Obsidian on iPhone?

[andy4222]

Hi friends, I’ve been using Obsidian on the mac and it’s a great app, love it! I don’t use Obsidian sync, just the normal/free version is enough for me.

Have been trying to adjust and figure out ways to sync my obsidian vault across mac and iPhone, and it’s such a nightmare. The easiest setup I could figure out was via iCloud, but iCloud doesn’t sync well and when I open obsidian on the phone, it is Waiting for iCloud to synchronize... for 30 secs- 1 min .

Any other setup recommendations that’s more reliable and doesn’t require me handholding it once it’s configured?

PS: Can’t afford a subscription for sync.

[gino_m]

Similar thread from a few days ago:

Safe Obsidian Notes Backup Help Options/Guide

Obsidian stores all related data to a vault in that folder, so if you just do a copy of that folder you’ve got a fine backup. This would of course still be on your local device, so if it fails it’s lost. But given a laptop you could create a routine to copy the folder out onto a memory stick (USB stick/device) for safe keeping, or to another laptop of your choice if you’ve got something available. You could also do various variants over the theme copying the vault folder to Dropbox, One Drive,…

[CawlinTeffid]

These are the five methods currently believed to work for syncing between devices if you’ll be including an iPhone and/or iPad:

• iCloud (NOTE: iCloud on Windows is known to cause file duplication issues as well as data corruption and loss, and the Obsidian devs and community strongly recommend that you avoid this combination.)

• Official Obsidian Sync

• Self-hosted LiveSync plugin

• Remotely Save plugin and various cloud services, including Amazon S3 or S3-compatible, Dropbox, OneDrive for personal, and Webdav

• Git with the Working Copy iOS app

— Discord

[gino_m]

@CawlinTeffid

Git with the Working Copy iOS app

Or iSH/A-Shell (the latter even via Shortcuts).

[CawlinTeffid]

I changed “using” to “syncing” in the title so people will know what the question is.