My devices just keep unsyncing after a day or two and I am forced to resync them over and over, browsers are updated to the latest versions too.
Thereâs the Test Flight program for beta versions of apps on iOS which might help,
Or just wait until after the holidays when the Brave team get back to their work flow for a update
The only way to roll back an app on iOS is to perform this convoluted song and dance with an old version of iTunes: https://youtu.be/9PPEJPritDI
That doesnât fix it though.
I tried that before making this thread.
100% the only way is for the Brave team to fix it as it is something wrong their end.
I have had this issue for ages now.
STILL BROKEN
I tweeted the Brave staff on Twitter a while ago and some asked for information there.
This is MONTHS broken for me!
It is all devices for me and I can confirm that uninstalling doesnât fix it as I know someone mentioned a while back about it.
I have tried everything possible before I made my initial post and uninstalling doesnât fix it at all. It is broken Brave side, not ours.
It is something their end that changed in a version a while back as this never used to happen. The sync must have changed and that broke it.
Uninstalling, using different sync chains etc all doesnât fix it.
We have to wait for Brave to fix it.
If you have it too, comment so they know as I am almost certain every one will have this who uses iOS sync.
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I agree., itâs broken. Brave has a history of doing a poor job with sync especially on iOS. Brave was slow to introduce this feature and it never worked properly. It was unavailable for many months a couple of years ago.
It looks as though Brave does not really care. And this isnât the only problem area. There are several sites I visit regularly where Brave takes many seconds to load but Safari loads rapidly. Unfortunately Safari supports few of the extensions I use most.
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Hi guys,
Same exact issues here on iPhone (up to date, etc.), itâs starting to get really annoying :-/
Considering switching back to a less privacy-aware browserâŚ
Please correct this and your product will be really awesome!
âŚexcept everyone has been waiting for over 2 months now (maybe closer to 3) - and Brave team are silent on the matter, they havenât even acknowledged the issue⌠
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Yep - was trying to avoid that. Have done it once before 3 years or so ago for a different app. In fact itâs sort of a no go for me as I have issues with iTunes on my Windows 10 PC (i.e. it has an existing issue and I canât reinstall it or try to fix it without nuking the whole Windows machine). 
and not sure how easily I can go back with iTunes on the Macbook (which is brand new so prefer not to start hacking the set-up this soon)⌠So pretty much in the too hard basket/not worth the effort at this stage (easier to just revert to Safari).
I do still think rolling back to an older version of Brave has a good chance of fixing the issue temporarily because the old version on my iPad Mini 2 (admittedly with older iOS as well) is working fineâŚ
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just had a look at Brave Beta on iOS and its the same version as the standard release, so no improvement
I spoke to a few Brave staff on Twitter but havenât heard back for a while.
Last time they were trying to replicate it, but it is easy to replicate. My steps never fail!
If you are on iOS you will have this too. Please reply and let us know. If this gets some heat maybe they will fix it soon as it has been months for me now!
If you are on Twitter, you can retweet my post or do one similar. I tagged some staff that I know help.
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I donât know about anyone else and at least for today I removed my sync chain and started a new one and everything seems to be working! Will it last who knows I will find out tomorrow.
iâve done that Heather
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the problem is that it doesnât last synced for longer than a few days
I have issue #3 where the sync freezes after scanning the QR code using my iPhone XR.
Iâve tried multiple time and nothing happens. If I have to enter 20 words to sync, given the problems listed here, then itâs not worth it.
Please fix this.
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Hello, all! I wanted to update this thread after doing a few hours of testing on my end. I was able to confirm that sync didnât appear to work in some cases, but worked most of the time as I would expect. Allow me to elaborate.
To conduct my testing I setup Brave Nightly (v1.1.36.23) on my Windows 10 PC, and Brave (v1.32, 21.10.13.18) on my iPad. Both instances were removed from any existing sync chains beforehand.
I created a new sync chain from the iOS device, and manually entered the code words into my desktop device, thus connecting the two via a novel, common chain. Upon doing this, bookmarks were exchanged between devices. As @ukheather stated, everything appears to work when you first establish the new chain.
What Worked
I primarily tested bookmark-syncing, which I found to work flawlessly in my experience. In fact, not only did I run into 0 issues syncing bookmarks between devices, I was impressed with how quickly changes were propagated.
I created bookmarks from desktop, and saw them appear on iOS. I created bookmarks from iOS, and saw them appear on desktop. I deleted bookmarks on both ends, and saw them be removed almost immediately from the other device. I also did edits (changing a title, or moving from one folder to another) and saw those applied within seconds to the other device.
What Didnât Work (or didnât work well)
After confirming that bookmarks were working reliably for me, I enabled history-sync on both devices and began testing that scenario. I would type a URL into desktop, and wait for it to appear in Braveâs history on iOS. I would also type a URL into iOS, and wait for it to appear in Braveâs history on desktop. This scenario worked sometimes, but not always, and usually only in one direction (sending desktop URLs to iOS).
When I first enabled History Sync on iOS, recently-visited domains were synced to the desktop device. Viewing the updated history on desktop requires a manual refresh of the desktop history page, which is not the case for iOS.
As @ukheather described in earlier posts, there were indeed some issues after the initial sync. I couldnât get many history items (i.e. typed URLs) to sync from iOS to desktop. Desktop to iOS worked very reliably, but mobile-history rarely appeared in the history of the desktop instance of Brave (out of half a dozen or so URLs tested, 1 or 2 syncâd to desktop).
Itâs unclear at this time where the problem lies; it could be an issue with iOS failing to recognize the opportunity to sync history from time to time. I am already speaking with the iOS team about investigating their possibility further.
Other Notes
My testing involved proxying all iOS network activity through the desktop device where Brave Nightly was running. Traffic for both Brave Nightly on Windows, and Brave on iOS, passed through the Web Proxy Debugger Fiddler Classic (by Telerik).
Although I had trouble syncing history (again, bookmarks worked very reliably) from iOS to desktop, both browser instances remained in good communication with the Sync endpoint (sync-v2.brave.com at the time of this writing). I never noticed any interruptions in communication with the Sync server itself.
Conclusion
Iâm convinced there is indeed an issue here which prevents, at the very least, history from being synced from iOS to desktop (or presumably any other device on the sync chain). Iâm going to spend more time looking into this, and hope to have more updates to share in the near future.
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Yes - it wonât sync history across my devices either
During my testing, history from my PC synced to my iOS device without any issue. Do you observe the same behavior?
At lease for me if you create a new sync chain it will work the 1st day and then after that nothing it will not work at all. And in fact when starting a new chain the qc code will not work and just freezes. Only thing that does is the key. I have a Mac with iOS devices
the main issue Sampson is at first sync, all is ok. its after a day or so which things start to un-sync. so your first day is going to be ok its going to be over time which things start to not sync