ParloriCloud sync
Sign in to iCloud on each device and Parlor keeps your saves, save states and library in step. There's no account to create and no server of ours in the middle — it's your private iCloud database.
What syncs
| Syncs | Doesn't sync |
|---|---|
| Battery saves (with real-time clock) | Game files — never uploaded |
| Every save state, with its screenshot | Box art (re-fetched per device) |
| Library entries: title, system, favorite, date added | Settings, controller and keyboard mappings |
| Play time and last-played | |
| Which game you played most recently, and where | |
| DS screen layouts per game |
Because game files stay put, a game you added on your iPad shows on your iPhone only once you add the file there too. Its save and states are waiting. On Apple TV, a game whose file is missing shows a cloud badge and can be re-sent from an iPhone; see Apple TV.
Status
Settings → iCloud shows one line: Up to date, Syncing…, Off, or an error with its reason — iCloud is not signed in, iCloud account changed, or iCloud is not available in this build for developer builds installed without the entitlement.
Sync runs while Parlor is in the foreground with a network connection. Leaving a game pushes its save and auto-state promptly.
Conflicts
Two devices can write the same save while one of them is offline. When they meet, Parlor picks the newer write — and keeps the other one:
- A losing battery save becomes a recovery copy of the game's save.
- A losing save state becomes the Recovery slot in the pause menu, labelled Preserved from a sync conflict.
- Library fields merge individually: last-played takes the later date, play time takes the larger, favorite and title each keep their own most recent change.
- A deletion from another device never discards something you've changed locally since.
Open the pause menu and load the Recovery slot, then save it into a numbered slot to make it permanent.
Cross-device resume
Parlor records the last game you played and on which device. Sit down at another device and the library offers Continue game from device — 4 min ago with a Resume button, which loads the newest state.
Privacy
Everything above lives in the private database of your iCloud account. No one else — including us — can read it. See the privacy policy.