Ninox on iPad Stopped Saving Changes

I also had a backup problem on icloud. After restoring my database, I had lost data (photos and pdf) related to data.
I managed to recover the information by importing the data from an old backup. The problem is that I had all the data duplicated, I had to erase the ones that didn’t have the files related to the photos and pdf.. and recreate the one that was not saved. Since then I have made several backups, on Ipad, iCloud, hoping it doesn’t happen again.

I also have seen this, recently, on the local Mac app sync'ing via iCloud. I spent a day adding data and then later on (after closing the db to save an archive and re-opening) noticed the recent data was simply missing.

Creating a new db by importing an archive (the one being created above) and no more problem. However, if I revert back to the problematic db, it still will not save data.

Looking at Ninox's files I can see that the data.db file (the real database) is not being updated, it silently does not save the new data when it is supposed to and when subsequently re-opening the db, that new data is not there.

No obvious reason I can see why as the perms etc of the files are all correct, but that db will simply NOT save any data, only structural changes are saved. Yet a duplicated db works fine, as does the new one created from the archive, although neither of course contain the missing data. That's gone.

Seems kinda worrying to me, to say the least.

I've encountered this problem twice now as well, and I am extremely nervous and wondering if I need to take the Db to a local working copy. I can't be entering data for who knows how long only to find out at a later date they didn't get saved. I also did the Save As archive and I wonder if that is related but I've haven't tested since this is a massive problem as it impacts data integrity and has Ninox acknowledge this as an issue? Also is there any way you can "tell" if the iCloud DB is current so I can at least check to make sure exiting the Db, rebooting, etc won't cause a data lose?

I have the same problem. Has anyone found a solution to the problem?

This problem has been around for a long time or has not been solved, I have been using Ninox for 2 years and two years with this problem on both iPad and Android

I turned off iCloud sharing and the problem went away.

This is NOT a solution as Ninox is claimed to be a database that can be shared in this way and it irks that it actually fails in its claimed abilities. Worse, after several years Ninox have done NOTHING to fix this glaring bug.

To my mind that speaks volumes of how Ninox actually care about the real quality of their product, as opposed to the 'marketing' blurb that proclaims its abilities.

Thank you for your quick and clarifying answers! I read straight away but needed to collect my thoughts before answer.

J have worked with Ninox databas since 2020 so I have put in a lot of time and energy into Ninox. I have had minor problems which I solved by making backups of the entire database to the hard drive at each device. It has been working OK until I updated the other day. After that the data was missing even in the backup.

I’ve always thought it was me doing something wrong so I’m satisfied to hear that it wasn’t the case. But I am extremely angry and frustrated with Ninox still recommending iCloud and not presenting any alternative or solution to this problem. It is a significant problem if you can’t trust a database to save the information you enter. I go for your solution to turn off iCloud but it is not a satisfactory solution.