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ikjadoon
Jan 19, 2020Bronze Contributor
The Missing Sync Items from "Settings"
Just want to make sure: even Settings sync is 95% unfinished for everybody, right? I'm perpetually needing to add the same words back to the dictionary on each system. The same with search engines. I...
- Jan 24, 2020
Hi there, I work on Edge. You are right that there are many settings that do not sync. Right now, only a few sync (homepage, homepage is your new tab page, restore on start up, for example). We are actively working on expanding the number of settings that sync.
ikjadoon
Jan 20, 2020Bronze Contributor
Thank you for checking, HotCakeX, on Canary.
Sync, for all the planning done otherwise, was not planned out as well as other features.
To reiterate, if MS is not going to sync significant amounts of data from Settings, it'd be nice if they informed Stable users who might otherwise think, "Huh, I guess sync isn't working." Instead, it's going to be fixed soon, but it's not there yet.
After all the other browsers have figured out sync, I'm just surprised Microsoft couldn't nail this from the get-go.
Sync, for all the planning done otherwise, was not planned out as well as other features.
To reiterate, if MS is not going to sync significant amounts of data from Settings, it'd be nice if they informed Stable users who might otherwise think, "Huh, I guess sync isn't working." Instead, it's going to be fixed soon, but it's not there yet.
After all the other browsers have figured out sync, I'm just surprised Microsoft couldn't nail this from the get-go.
HotCakeX
Jan 20, 2020MVP
Totally agree, Settings sync also should be changed to "coming soon" status until it is fully covering all of the bits in Edge settings.