Freeform missing board

Same thing happened to me just now. Spent the day creating two boards and wanted to share them. Got a message that I need to turn on snyc with iCloud first. Activated the sync as suggested and tried to share again. Then a message pops up, that the boards are not synched yet. Waited a few moments and worked on something else. When I switched back to the app all boards were gone.

Now I can start all over and basically lost a day's work due to this BS-.-

did you manage to recover the boards? same just happened to me and I dont see it in recently deleted....

I have the same problem, but the board says that it has't synched with iCloud (and yes all the permissions are on to permit it.) This is painful as its an important draft I spent some time on and need on my phone.

I have this problem. I have tried reinstalling, turned sync off and on etc. Sync appears to work when the boards do not contain groups or a lot of drawing. The app is unusable at the moment across devices and collaboration is a no also. I'll await updates.

So did I. I wrote a board on Mac first, then I turned on sync with iCloud. But I couldn't find this board on my iPhone. After I closed and return on sync with iCloud on my Mac, I lost a whole day's work. Really disappointed me.

I experienced the same issue today and spent an hour on the phone with Apple Support. We tried a lot of things to try and find the missing boards with no luck.

They have raised a ticket with the product team.

Same experience here. I too spent much time on my first board. I assigned two collaborators. The content is absent for all three users and all devices. It appears we have to await a fix. The empty board appears on all devices. The Home Screen indicates the appropriate numbers of all boards, recents, shared and favorites but no content in any. It appears that Freeform’s only skill is counting.

The same thing happened to me... I worked on a board for 2 days on my Mac.

Since it was not synching with my other devices, I tried to disable/enable iCloud sync and lost everything...

TimeMachine back-ups are useless. I'm just going to use GoogleDraw, Miro or another app instead... I'm very disappointing and annoyed with this app!

Met the same issue. I created some boards on my mac. Turned on sync with iCloud. Then I lost everything......

I have same problem. Freeform on iPad is not sync with macbook.

Have you tried a fake board on the phone and another on the Mac - that seems to force the iCloud backup and the boards appear in both places.

since I did this I’ve had no problems.

thank you! I created fake ones and sync works now! but I can't see my "old" boards that disappeared... Do you know how I can access the back up if possible?

thank you! I created fake ones and sync works now! but I can't see my "old" boards that disappeared... Do you know how I can access the back up if possible?

Have you tried Time Machine on your Mac (provided you run it regularly)? That may allow you to see and restore the file. If not it’s gone.