iOS 18 finally introduces "keep downloaded" option in iCloud

After selecting the “keep downloaded” option, Obsidian mobile load time on iOS has significantly increased for me and I haven’t yet gotten the “waiting for iCloud to sync config files…” page.

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Neat! I’m hoping it doesn’t have any weird side effects. I can’t anticipate any, but maybe someone else could.

Bear in mind that iOS 18 is still in beta. But this is a very exciting development!

This doesn’t seem to be working as we hoped. I still have to “wait for icloud files to sync” when I open obsidian on iOS. Yes, I have “keep downloaded” checked in the Files app. The file count and size in the Files app matches what is on my icloud drive, so there should be nothing to sync.

I’ve opened Obsidian on my iPhone 3 times today, and it had the “wait…” banner each time. There is a skip button, but I’m a scaredly cat and just wait out the sync banner.

See dev comment:

If you’ve chosen to keep your vault folder downloaded, you can safely use the skip button.