iOS 26.5 / Obsidian 1.12.7 – “Your iCloud vault was not detected” although the vault is correctly located in iCloud Drive

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  • Developer issues with the API should go I’m experiencing an issue with Obsidian on iOS that appears to be identical to a few recent reports on this forum. I have spent several hours verifying every documented cause and can now reproduce the problem with a completely new vault.

    Environment:

    • Obsidian Desktop: 1.12.7
    • Obsidian iOS: 1.12.7
    • macOS Sonoma 14.5 (Intel MacBook Pro)
    • iOS 26.5
    • Same Apple ID on both devices
    • iCloud Drive enabled

    Problem:

    When launching Obsidian on my iPhone and selecting “iCloud”, Obsidian immediately displays the following error:

    “Your iCloud vault was not detected.”

    It suggests that either the vault belongs to another iCloud account or that it is not stored inside the top-level Obsidian folder. Neither is the case.

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