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Troubleshooting Sync Issues

When data is missing on one device, and why it is rarely sync

3 min readUpdated Sep 3, 2026

Start here, because it changes what is worth trying: ClapDiet does not sync.

There is no second copy of your data on your phone to be reconciled with the

one on your account. Every screen reads your account when you open it, and every

entry is written to your account when you save it.

So there is nothing that can be stuck, half-finished or out of order. When

something is missing on one device, it is almost always one of three things,

and none of them is sync.

How this works

The three causes, in order of likelihood

1. A different account

By a wide margin the most common. It is easy to end up with two accounts

without noticing — signing up with an email address on one device and with

Google or Apple on another creates two separate accounts that look identical

from the outside.

Check the email address shown under Settings > Profile on the web, or

Settings > Account in the app, on each device. If they differ, that is

your answer: sign out on the device showing less, and sign back in with the

other address.

2. The screen has not reloaded

Screens hold what they loaded for a few minutes so that moving back and forth

does not re-fetch constantly. If you changed something elsewhere in the last

few minutes, pull down to refresh — or leave the screen and come back.

3. You are looking at a different day

Daily totals are worked out in your account's timezone. If that timezone is

wrong, entries can appear on the day either side of the one you expect. Check it

under your profile.

When nothing loads at all

That is a connection problem rather than a data problem. The app cannot detect

that you are offline, so it shows an error or an empty screen instead of saying

so — see Offline mode, which also explains

why anything you logged without a connection is not waiting to be uploaded.

New device, nothing there

There is no initial sync to wait through. Sign in and your data is there

immediately. If it is not, go back to cause 1 above — it is the account, not the

transfer.

The same entry twice

If you logged something on two devices within a minute of each other, you have

two entries rather than one merged one. Delete the one you do not want. You will

never be asked to resolve a conflict, because there is no second version to

conflict with.

Things that will not help

Worth naming, because they are the reflexes:

  • Reinstalling. There is no local database to rebuild.
  • Clearing the app's data. Same reason. It signs you out and changes
  • nothing else.

  • Waiting. Nothing is queued, so nothing arrives later.
  • Signing out and back in is the one classic move that does help, and only

    because it resolves cause 1.

    Still missing

    Email support@clapdiet.com rather than re-entering it, and say what is missing,

    roughly when you entered it, and on which device. We would rather find out where

    it went.


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