I'm adding iCloud sync using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to my production app. When the user firsts downloads the app, they are prompted to create a profile (they basically just choose an icon representing something). There's no email address or anything, and the user can create multiple profiles to track different things.
Now that there's iCloud sync, if a user downloads the app on an iPad after using it on their phone, they are still prompted to create a profile. There's no way around this as far as I can tell, because you cannot manually trigger a sync and it sometimes takes a full 5 minutes for NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to decide to sync.
How do I handle the UX of this? I don't want the user to have to create a new profile and then delete/merge it once the data comes in, but I can't rely on iCloud syncing in time to handle this case. Any advice would be really appreciated.
Now that there's iCloud sync, if a user downloads the app on an iPad after using it on their phone, they are still prompted to create a profile. There's no way around this as far as I can tell, because you cannot manually trigger a sync and it sometimes takes a full 5 minutes for NSPersistentCloudKitContainer to decide to sync.
How do I handle the UX of this? I don't want the user to have to create a new profile and then delete/merge it once the data comes in, but I can't rely on iCloud syncing in time to handle this case. Any advice would be really appreciated.