iCloud appears to be the only officially supported sync option for iOS besides Obsidian Sync. I’m aware that file duplication and corruption when syncing between Windows and iOS via iCloud is a known issue, and I’ve been experiencing it as well. I’ve read many forum discussions about this problem, but I haven’t found a clear or reliable solution. I’m curious how people in a similar situation have worked around it, and what best practices you would recommend.

Here’s a pinned post on Discord via epiphanicsynchronicity: 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 with 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 or Remotely Secure plugin and various cloud services, including Amazon S3 or S3-compatible, Dropbox, OneDrive for personal, and Webdav • Git with the Working Copy or a-Shell iOS app Discord

[image] ariehen: a-Shell iOS app [image] [Mobile] Automatic sync with GitHub on iOS (for free) via a-shell Share & showcase I recently started using Obsidian and didn’t want to pay for Sync or Working Copy, so I thought I’d try to figure out a way to sync my vault everywhere for free. I saw in the comments of this post by rsteele and this post from ForceBru that people were able to get GitHub to sync with their iOS device using the a-shell app, but the way to do it was not really discussed. I hope that this tutorial will be useful for other non-tech-savvy people like myself who would like to get their vault synced ac…

Best practice for syncing between Windows and iOS

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Sunnaq445 February 14, 2026, 2:48pm 3