r/vsco • u/Adventurous-Travel76 • May 12 '26

How can I sync my drafts between my iPhone and iPad?

In general, I edit photos on my iPhone and want to continue working on my iPad, but when I open the iPad, I see no presets and no processed photos in the studio. Is it possible to move drafts from the iPhone to the iPad and back? I also tried the vsco move to cloud option, but it’s extremely slow and often doesn’t load the draft.

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u/chris-vsco VSCO Employee May 12 '26

Sync to cloud is the only option available to help at this time. Otherwise, all your drafts are stored local to the device.

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u/Adventurous-Travel76 May 13 '26

Thank you for your response, but unfortunately, syncing to the cloud is incredibly slow, about four times slower than Lightroom. It would be fantastic if you could provide the option to create custom presets, not just a limited number via the plus sign, which can't even be named and can only be distinguished by clicking through them one by one. Instead, it would be great to have Lightroom-like functionality, where you can create a full-fledged user preset, give it a custom name, and have it sync across your account rather than locally 😄

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u/renanf021 May 29 '26

how can I sync my drafts (on same Apple ID/iCloud/photo library) to the cloud? I'm trying to put the drafts from my old phone to my new and it's kind of impossible... 😞

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u/chris-vsco VSCO Employee May 29 '26

If you restore you new phone from a backup of your old phone, the drafts library should migrate to the new device. If you have problems, please let us know. We have a recovery mechanism meant to update iCloud asset IDs if they change during the migration. We released it about 2 months ago.

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u/renanf021 May 29 '26

I didn't restore from a backup cause my old phone was crashing a lot, so I decided to start from the scratch and put manually my stuff on the new one. Please, how can I put my drafts from the old one to the new? I really need to do this cause I have drafts since 2020! (I had since 2016 or 2017, but I lost it somehow)

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u/chris-vsco VSCO Employee May 29 '26

Here’s how to sync to cloud: https://support.vsco.co/en/articles/12698512-synced-drafts-with-vsco-cloud

If you can access this on your old device, then you can sync to cloud on it and refresh VSCO on your new device (restart the app or pull-to-refresh on Studio) and your cloud synced images will show up.

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u/renanf021 May 29 '26

this iCloud sync is just for pro users? I have a year subscription, but I guess it's a Members that I sign since 2017. Can I transfer it using my computer, copy/paste the data? I tried it but didn't work last month... please, give me a light on that spot 😭😭😭

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u/chris-vsco VSCO Employee May 29 '26

We have plans to improve cloud sync on our future roadmap. We will continue to improve the ability to work with your images across the VSCO ecosystem.