Your Data Follows You:
iCloud Sync Explained

Log a dose on your phone at 7am, check it from an iPad at lunch, and it should already be there. That's the entire promise of sync, and it's easy to take for granted right up until it doesn't work.

How it actually works

Every medication, vitals entry and daily note is stored in your own private iCloud account, the same one that already backs up your photos and messages. When you open Halo on another of your devices signed into that same iCloud account, the records are simply already there.

Why this matters more than it sounds like it should

For a single-device household this is invisible. For anything else, a phone and an iPad, a shared family device, a phone upgrade, it's the difference between a continuous record and starting over. Nobody wants to rebuild six months of weight history because they switched phones.

Worth knowing: this is genuinely your iCloud, not a Halo-run server. Nobody at Halo can see the data moving between your devices, because it never passes through anything Halo controls.

What it needs to work

Just an iCloud account signed in on each device, and iCloud enabled for the app in your device settings, which is on by default. There's no account to create inside Halo itself and nothing extra to configure.

What happens if you're offline

Everything still works exactly the same, logging a dose or checking a reading doesn't need a connection. It syncs the next time the device has one, quietly, in the background.

This is the same principle behind why Halo doesn't collect your data in the first place: the records were always meant to be yours, sync just means "yours, everywhere," not "yours, on a server somewhere."

The same record, on every device

Halo syncs through your own private iCloud, automatically, with nothing extra to set up.

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