Syncing is NOT guaranteed: your work may get lost

Ok I really love using Google and all of the products since they all work and play well together - I just want to get it out there.

My one beef:

I was making notes for my exam and I was working on my iPad Pro (10.5 in). I was connected to WiFi at Denny’s since it was the only place open past 10PM (Starbucks had closed). I was with my classmate doing some last minute studying.

Usually, Google Docs will tell you that you are not connected to the internet. However, when I was working on my notes it looked like it was syncing properly. Since I’m working on the Google Docs on the iPad, I assumed it would save; the difference with the web version is that the web version will say “All changes save in Drive”.

I had 4 hours of important notes for my exam that I created between the hours of 1am - 4am.

Well, guess what.

When I woke up at 11 am to leave for the university and I finally arrived early to review, I checked my Google Docs.

It only had my notes before 1AM!

I LOST ALL OF MY NOTES between 1am - 4am! There’s no version history record, zip, nada!

I was panicking obviously since it was exam day.

AND you know what, I got my grade after the exam, and the majority of my mistakes were from the notes that was missing!

So I think there’s a problem here:
Google Docs for iPAD is NOT reliable. It should save automatically to the Drive but if it CANNOT, it should
1) give an alert that it is NOT able to save to the Drive
2) save a BACKUP into Files in the iPad until Docs in the iPad can sync with Drive.

**** Tip:

Do NOT use the iPad version of Docs (I am using the current version as of writing this review). Instead, use the web version.

If you are a student who totally got screwed like me, my advice is that you use your iPad to listen to your lectures or watch the PowerPoints, and write your notes on the WEB VERSION of Docs.

*** Note: I checked my Web version of Docs and looked at the version history of the problematic note and it says that the only version Docs has is from TODAY (2/1/2018). But it has ALL of my notes before 1am on 1/31/2018. I have been working on my notes in my Docs (iPad) since 1/24/2018!

WOW!

I.
CAN’T.
EVEN!

JetBlitz about Google Docs, v1.2018.042