Sync Between iPhone, iPad and lds.org?

I currently have the LDS gospel library app on my iPhone and iPad. And I have an account on lds.org. I read scriptures across all of my devices, depending on where I am and what I'm trying to accomplish.

The biggest limitation is that the notes and highlights that I make in one device does not sync with the other devices. These apps will not become "mainstream" and truly useful until the notes and highlighting that people are used to doing in their physical scriptures are also available in a digital format across all of their devices.

I'm reluctant to highlight things in any of my apps or take notes because I know I won't see them anywhere else.

I'm curious if there are any plans to rollout this functionality.

terramar wrote:I'm curious if there are any plans to rollout this functionality.

The LDS Tech Projects Wiki has information for each of the mobil devices you mention. In the GL for the iPhone that capability is on the wishlist. I could find nothing similar for the iPad. Both of these are developed by the volunteer community. The lds.org My Study Notes application is developed in-house by Church development teams. We do not have a roadmap for this development. A good guess is that if there is enough interest for the capability, which there appears to be, and it is on the road map for My Study Notes that it will eventually become available.

jdlessley wrote:The LDS Tech Projects Wiki has information for each of the mobil devices you mention. In the GL for the iPhone that capability is on the wishlist. I could find nothing similar for the iPad. Both of these are developed by the volunteer community. The lds.org My Study Notes application is developed in-house by Church development teams. We do not have a roadmap for this development. A good guess is that if there is enough interest for the capability, which there appears to be, and it is on the road map for My Study Notes that it will eventually become available.

I think we can safely assume it's on the roadmap for My Study Notes because the church has published a specification for a web service that allows notes (annotations) stored on lds.org and in various Gospel Library applications (on mobile platforms) to be synchronized.

eblood66 wrote:I think we can safely assume it's on the roadmap for My Study Notes because the church has published a specification for a web service that allows notes (annotations) stored on lds.org and in various Gospel Library applications (on mobile platforms) to be synchronized.

I was just discussing the feasibility of this with some friends the other day. This would be GREAT.

I second that desire!
or third or fourth or however many times I do it.
I love studying with my books, but I don't always have my scriptures with me. I more often have my iPad or computer available. The sync with LDS.org would be a great advancement for the Gospel Library app!

This will be available in the next release... coming very soon!

Hi all,
I submitted a tech request to lds.org a few weeks ago and have gotten no help. I was wondering if any of you have had similar issues. I tried syncing my highlights from Gospel Library on my iphone a few weeks back and it crashed "My Study Notebook" on lds.org. I'm assuming that "My Study Notebook" still works for all of you, but when I sign in and navigate to the page on my laptop it says...."Page not found". Before I tried syncing everything worked fine.

lionelwalters wrote:This will be available in the next release... coming very soon!

That's great. I'm looking forward to an upgrade. Currently Gospel Library are running very slow when annotation sync is activated and after a short while it crashes. Furthermore links, tags and notes added on my iPad aren't updated on my space at LDS.org, neither on my iPhone or the other way round.

I wonder if all my tags, links and notes that have already been added in Gospel Library on my iPad will be preserved, or if they will be lost, when the upgrade comes. Hope that they could be preserved so I wouldn't have to do it again. To the developers, thanks a lot for your good work!

John

Silly me, I just assumed that my Gospel Library on my iPad would automatically sync with my LDS.org account! I was so excited, until I found that it didn't. However, if it truly is in a soon to be released update, I will once again be oh, SO excited!!
This technology is nothing short of AWESOME! Thank you to all who make it possible!

LesnKC wrote:Silly me, I just assumed that my Gospel Library on my iPad would automatically sync with my LDS.org account! I was so excited, until I found that it didn't. However, if it truly is in a soon to be released update, I will once again be oh, SO excited!!
This technology is nothing short of AWESOME! Thank you to all who make it possible!

This functionality did exist but when I updated to iOS 5 the syncing between my devices and lds.org disappeared. I suspect this was not a coincidence.

I updated to iOS 5 and the sync functionality did not disappear...

I did find that if you highlight using the underline marker @ lds.org on the iphone it shows up as highlighted & underlined (lds.org it's just underlined). Also you can only underline in red on lds.org but in the GL app you can underline in any color. I would like to have consistency between the "apps" so that my scriptures look and feel the same weather I'm studying on a mobile device or on my PC...

oculoman wrote:This functionality did exist but when I updated to iOS 5 the syncing between my devices and lds.org disappeared. I suspect this was not a coincidence.

It also crashed and didn't sync on my iPad/iPhone, before the IOS 5 update.

John

It is my understanding that the annotation I make on my iPad are to sync with lds.org. But nothing I have marked up on my iPad is reflected in my study journal. I have also tried in reverse and the markup does not appear on my iPad. Is this the expected result?

Since the latest Gospel Library update this week, neither my iPad nor my iPhone will sync withlds.org

shorschel wrote:I would like to have consistency between the "apps" so that my scriptures look and feel the same whether I'm studying on a mobile device or on my PC...

I believe this is the idea: it is exactly what I would like also, and believe that the most recent release is supposed to accomplish this.
However this:

djdinut1 wrote:Since the latest Gospel Library update this week, neither my iPad nor my iPhone will sync withlds.org

Is precisely what I am seeing also.
Before the latest update if sync was turned on when the app started, it crashed and turned sync back off 'for me'. Now the app does not crash (thank goodness) but it does not seem to synchronise either. Even when I press 'Sync Now', nothing happens.

EDIT: I take it back: all of my annotations, links etc.etc. are properly synchronised with My Study Notebook at lds.org. It's just that what I have done on my iPad isn't synchronised with my iPhone, nor vice versa. Plus neither device knows that it has correctly synchronised: still lists 7 and 23 changes still to synchronise.

Did you manage to resolve this? My iphone will synchronise with lds.org, insofar as annotations on the iphone are added to My Study Notebook, however this doesn't happen the other way and so notes made on lds.org are not transferred to my phone.

My iPad is syncing with lds.org but not my iPhone 4S and it hasn't for a month. Nothing I highlight on the iPhone gets to lds.org and nothing done on lds.org gets to my iPhone. I have signed in and out of my lds.org account several times and turned Annotation Sync on and off on the iPhone several times as well, all without results. The iPhone Gospel Library sync window indicates "17 changes pending since last successful sync at Dec. 31, 2000 5:00:00 PM."

My iPad and iPhone 4 (not the S, more's the pity lol) both synchronise notes they have made to the online My Study Notebook on lds.org, but still nothing comes the other way. Was this supposed to happen only this way and the other direction is still in development?

Hi All, Can you assist. My iPad seems to have been syncing up till 6th December but it still says that there are 452 annotations pending, even though there are probably only 20-30 since 6th December. Any Suggestions?
Thanks

Mine was working fine until today. My iPhone shows it has synced fine but my iPad is show the last secessful sync was Dec 6th, but it does have everything from yesterday that my iPhone has. I even logged out and back in on both devices, but the iPad only gets the information my iPhone synced two days ago.

Two weeks ago, my iPad stopped syncing with LDS.org. It now says I have over 2000 items to sync and that the last successful sync was in Dec. of 2000? I've tried uninstalling, you name it, but it won't sync anything to my study notebook. Any ideas?

I just fully uninstalled everything from both my iPhone and iPad; reinstalled the lot, deleted everything in my study notebook on LDS.org and started reinstalling from scratch.
Once installed I set up sync (via the prompt that comes on first startup); installed all of the scriptures etc. again and checked what the sync screen said. It indicated "0 changes pending since last successful sync at 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00" on both devices.
I proceeded to mark a different scripture on each device and see what changed:
Romans 1:16 on the iPhone, there are now "3 changes pending since last successful sync at 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00"
D&C 76:22-24 on the iPad: there are now "7 changes pending..."
Pressing the "sync now" button does nothing at all.

Further testing:
I closed the apps on both devices fully and reopened. Internet was used briefly, and the iPhone changed back to "0 pending..."; no change in the iPad's "7 pending...".
Online both highlights appeared in My Study Notebook.
Testing in reverse;
I created a journal entry (the only thing i seem to be able to do online from my iPad, can't tag or highlight scriptures?) online, reclosed both apps and reopened. Internet used again: the iPhone downloaded the journal entry I made online, but not the marking from my iPad: even though both appear online, the iPad downloaded neither.
Next step: device created journal entires... Stay tuned...

Created a note, a link and a tag on each device, made sure both had synced.
All of these appeared correctly online: iPhone correctly states "0 pending...", iPad now has 13...
Re-synced (iPhone synced first, so the iPad's stuff wasn't online then, just checking all angles), still nothing moves between devices.
I noticed a previous post indicated it took a number of days for items to get from one device to another, so I will leave it just so, and see...

Mine seems to be working ok. It does take a little bit of time but I have found that making the changes on my lds.org account first makes it go to my iPad faster than the other way around. Hope that helps.

Just over two weeks on, and no change: nothing further has been synced (I have made no new alterations) from/to any device. Looks like the 'wait a while' idea doesn't work either.

My iPhone 4S has not synced with My Study Notebook on lds.org since Oct. 2011. My new iPad 3 will not sync either (I downloaded Gospel Library yesterday and no sync has taken place. What is the deal with this app?

I found this thread when looking for a solution to my calendar syncing problem so thought I should check how the gospel library was syncing for me. Here's my results:

1. Checked the iPad and things looked to be syncing correctly. Last sync was earlier today when I used the scriptures in church.

2. Checked the iPhone and it said it hadnt synced since Jan 1, 2000. Humm do I have the same problem? Tried to manually sync - no go. It didn't do anything.

3. Back to the iPad: I marked a scripture and out a tag on it as well. Manually sync and it appeared to work as it should.

4. Back to the iPhone: tried a manual sync and no luck same as before.

5. On the iphone I pressed the "sign out" button which cleared my credentials. Then re-entered my lds account credentials and pressed "log in" (or whatever that button says). I got a popup message stating that login was successful and that changes would sync.

6. I manually synced and it appeared to update correctly. A quick check of the scripture I marked in step 3 above and yes indeed it had synced to the iPhone correctly.

7. Marked a scripture on the iPhone. 1 change pending. Tried a manual sync and it didn't do anything. I force closed the app, went back in and it did the sync itself. 0 changes pending.

8. On the iPad I checked the verse marked in 7 and the mark was there.

Everything seems to be working again after I signed out and then back in again.

Perhaps it would be helpful if someone from the Church who has responsibility for this area can articulate what plans are in place so we are not all guessing how it is suppose to work. Generally, my synching works, but I am struggling with the synching of notes. When I attach a note to a scripture or conference talk in Gospel Library using my iPad or iPhone, I would expect it to show up when accessing such scriptures or conference talks on LDS.org - but they don't. I love knowing, in the context of a scripture or talk, that I have made a note or other annotation - a link or tag - and can choose to open it there. Will this same feature be available within LDS.org - in other words, will I be able to access my notes right in the context of the scriptures or conference talks if I have put them there? This seems critically intuitive and necessary.

I too would like help with this. I too am getting the "changes pending since last successful sync at Dec 31, 2000" message on the sync page of the GL app.

I had to delete and then re-download the app for my annotations to show up.

How do I sync highlighting in my scriptures between my iPad and my new iPhone 7

Just log in with your. We phone and let it sync