Incomplete and bad syncing of Freeform boards across devices

Freefrom sync from iPad to Mac is really buggy. There are too many pencil-drawn "artifacts" and incomplete sections/strokes that transfer, or do not transfer (especially when the eraser tool has been involved). I'd love to see an update to this, but for now, unusable.

Same issue here! Makes Freeform on Mac useless for me.

Same issue here.

iPad Mini 6 handwriting and drawings using Pencil 2 are missing strokes when viewed on other devices (iOS and MacOS).

I’m having the same issue. It only happens when I drew on IPad Pro to sync across my other Apple devices. When I drew on IPhone or write on the desktop version the syncing looks fine.

Exacty my issue. Ipad 2018 and Macbook air M1. Unusable.

Hello Steve Isaacs,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities!

We're here to help with the Freeform app.

Let's try starting in safe mode and see if you get the same results.

Once inside safe mode, log in to your account and check if the issue is also occurring or not. Use this article for the steps to get into safe mode: How to use safe mode on your Mac

If everything is working properly in safe mode, but then is not working after you restart the Mac, please check the section titled "If an issue doesn't happen in safe mode" for the next troubleshooting steps. 

If the issue is also happening in safe mode, you will need to see if this problem occurs in a new test administrator account on your Mac. A test user will let us know if the issue is isolated to your account, or system wide. 

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I have the same issue, but it seems like it’s a problem on the iPad‘s end and not the iMac. Only parts of the sketch or letters show up on the board except on the device that it was drawn on.

Same here… MacBook updates does not sync across to iPhone and iPad .. such a garbage app..