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The latest Android app is still not syncing for me even when it says it is. An audio note I took last night on my phone - a large one, I'll admit - had to be force-refreshed this morning to actually push to the servers (even though I had hit the checkmark to indicate it was done editing and gone back to the main page, not just swiped away). I suspect my not-the-latest phone is part of the problem, but that just points to the main part of it, which is that I suspect I'm not a part of the target market for Evernote anymore. All I want is to take notes - text, audio, and pictures - for myself on my phone and have them available (as quickly as the bandwidth and servers can support) on a computer.

My impression as a mostly-Android/Windows user (with a 2-year stint as an iOS user that ended... 2 years ago I think) and a paid Evernote subscriber for over a decade is that the mobile development and bugfixing is optimized for iOS. Android has seemed like an afterthought for at least the last 5 years, and the app's performance reflects that. (It could be that the development method just creates code that works more smoothly in iOS too; I wouldn't be able to tell that difference.) And if there's any class of behaviors that I'd expect to be different between iOS and Android, it's how background tasks and refreshing data works, so it's not a surprise that they differ in performance there.

That's not how it works. First off, whether taking the picture in the app or outside, the same thing can happen. (I'll admit I usually do it outside the app so I have a local copy of the picture, and in general it gets the picture taken quicker.) But when I'm taking the picture outside the app and sharing it, it opens the app, tells me to wait while it makes the note for it, and then goes to the app's main screen when done. And then, *most of the time*, it syncs in a minute or two. About 30% of the time, it just plain doesn't and I have to do the manual sync tap dance, which is why it would be awfully nice if it was easier to trigger a sync when I actually need it.

EN syncs automatically, except when it doesn't. I just had it happen again with my normal (not normal for most, I expect) workflow. Since it's fresh in my mind: Take a picture on my phone that I want to use in a document on my work PC. Share it with Evernote. It doesn't sync automatically, but I don't know that yet. Wait a few minutes thinking that it is going to sync automatically - it's an image after all, so it takes some time. Realize it doesn't sync. Go to Settings - Sync - Sync Now Then sync my Evernote Legacy and use the image. Restoring a manual sync button or a simple "sync when I pull down to refresh" would save me a bunch of time in this situation.

Thanks for the reply. The Android app appears to not be a virtual twin in at least this case, since other Android apps can share a selection to a printer, and generally that was harder for me in iOS with several other apps than it has been since I switched back to Android this year. "Print Note" does not appear, nor does the ability to share to Android's print service. Here are screenshots of the "3 dots" menu as well as the result of the "share" menu (which doesn't appear after a "Select All," only after selecting a portion of a note, weirdly) [edit: apparently it's not that clear-cut; sometimes it doesn't appear for a smaller selection even on the same note.]. The "Share" menu is not expandable to choose other destinations (like, say, the print service) via "More..." the way it is with other apps. "Share note" is a dead end that only allows you to send it as a cloud share or an email. (And the 3-dot at the right of the selection bar only allows search or translate.) [Update: I've played around a bit more, trying to print in apps that I usually don't, and it appears to be a choice made by the app designers to use a particular style or type of Share menu...? Anyway, there are other apps that will block my pinned "Print" choice in the Share menu as well. So Evernote probably could fix this, if it didn't interfere with another requirement.] I'm perfectly willing to believe there's a configuration or permissions issue blocking a feature for me (super-common in Android, and a complete pain to diagnose let alone test for), but the simplest and most useful thing Evernote could do would be to add "Print Note" as an option in Android. It's a pain point that, along with the loss of features in the recent Windows app (mainly loss of forced sync), has me exploring other options after using Evernote every day for over a decade.

Sorry, didn't see on my phone that I was posting in an old app's issues. That said, it hasn't been fixed in newer versions, and this thread is one of the two dead ends searching in the forums points you towards. Maybe they could just implement Android's "share" capability like almost every other app out there? They do that for iOS last I heard.

That workaround no longer is available in my Android device. Any other suggestions?

That share option is no longer available in the selected text menu. Anything else or should I start looking for alternatives?

Ctrl-R seems to reload the Windows app (as if it is a web browser, which it almost certainly is, now that you mention it), and Ctrl-[click on Help] seems to add the Troubleshooting item to the Help menu.

Unfortunately, those options are not in the Windows app's Help menu. And searching for "Reload" in their Help site doesn't give me anything useful either.

My use case is 1) Capture something with the web clipper. 2) Want to add additional text or edit the captured note without going through the annoying 3-5 clicks to open the note from the web clipper message. 3) Wait for sync to happen to see it in the desktop app (sorry, no interest in using the web app), forgetting what I was going to edit. Now it's "downgrade to Evernote Legacy" and do things the easy way -- 1) clip, 2) sync, 3) edit -- with the added benefit of getting the right-click options back on the tray icon (mostly "clip screenshot"). https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Install-an-older-version-of-Evernote