Sharing Regattas Across Your Devices with iCloud

Making Sure Your Devices Share Your Regattas

The good news is that iCloud sharing across your devices is automatic, and will generally be enabled as soon as you install ezRegatta PRO V2.0 or later.

If you want to double check it is enabled, or if you wish to turn it off, you can manage this in your device Settings app, or System Settings on a Mac (Apple Silicon) as follows:

1. Open Settings
2. Click on your account name or photo above the list
3. Click on iCloud
4. In the "Saved to iCloud" section near the top, click "See All"
5. Scroll down until you see ezRegatta PRO. It will be at or close to the bottom if recently installed
6. Verify the toggle is ON if you want to synchronize this device with others on your account. Toggling it OFF will disconnect it 

What to expect

Will the devices synchronize instantly

Sorry, but no. iCloud receives changes from your devices over the internet, decides what needs to be sent back to other devices, and send that information back over the internet. In my experience this can take a few seconds up to a minute or so. If one device is offline, it will not update until the app is active again and there is an internet connection.

Multiple "Default" Series

Depending on the order that your devices initially connect to iCloud, and whether they were all online simultaneously or not, you may well see that after they are all fully synched, you have two (or more) greyed out series at the top of your list of series. This indicates that another device created a default series, often called "Standalone Regattas" in the same way that your probably is. These default series cannot be deleted, but they can be merged. If you swipe to the right, you will see that one of them shows the merge symbol shown at right, and continuing to swipe right, or tapping the symbol will merge the regattas in this series with the next default series in your list.

Simultaneous Changes on Multiple Devices

iCloud is not magic, and is not telepathic, so beware of working on the same regatta on two different devices at the same time. It should not be a problem to score on one device and watch scores on another, but with the delays in synchronization, making changes on multiple devices will sometimes result in iCloud no longer understanding which data is correct, and worst case, if you are editing a regatta that another device just deleted for example, one of the devices may give up and the app will crash. Fortunately, just restarting the App has been seen to happily resume, update based on other device data, and continue.