I know Tap Forms provides for Family Sharing. My wife is set up on my Apple Account/App Store to share. I installed Tap Forms on her iPhone but since I started using iCloud for synching, her iPhone doesn’t seem to be acquiring changes I’m making on Tap Forms. I’m sure I don’t have something set right. Previously I was using Cloudant instead of iCloud.
Thank you.
Gary
So your wife has the exact same Apple ID as you do for iCloud?
If so, then it should work.
Try rebooting each device and see if that solves the problem.
Well, actually no…she doesn’t. So how does family sharing work?
Gary
Attachments:
You must be
logged in to view attached files.
Family Sharing has nothing to do with syncing iCloud accounts. It only has to do with sharing purchases made from the App Store.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201085
If you want to sync with your wife’s iOS devices you’ll need to either share the same Apple ID or use one of the other sync services built-in to Tap Forms, such as Nearby, IBM Cloud, or CouchDB.
Thanks,
Brendan
I am a bit late to the thread, but I recommend against using the same Apple ID to share files. It means that all e-mail, contacts, calendars, photos, bookmarks etc. are now in both of your devices. So she gets all your business contacts which she may care less about and you get all of hers. It is just not a tidy way of managing all that data each of you have. Apple has ways of sharing data items across accounts for those selected items that you both want. (Calendar sharing, for example). Take advantage of those instead.
As to TF, my wife and I share the DBs of mutual interest to each other via Cloaudant. It is generally reliable, though slow to upload when first establishing the DB. Also, there seems to be a file attachment size limit of around 30-40MB. That ls not an issue for us. Overall it really has worked well.
As to our other TF DBs that we both have, but the other is not interested in, we sync that to just our own devices though iCloud, which has worked well for us also.
Yes, I agree. It’s not a good idea to share iCloud accounts between different people. But it is what’s necessary to sync different devices using iCloud.
Don’t forget that Cloudant will be shutting down the current service at the end of March, so the 40 MB attachment limit will be reduced to 1 MB if/when you switch over to IBM Cloud. I hope IBM increases that limit. But so far they’ve been uncooperative.
.
