diff --git a/ios/App/App/DownloadiCloudFiles.swift b/ios/App/App/DownloadiCloudFiles.swift
index b01940179..62f43aab9 100644
--- a/ios/App/App/DownloadiCloudFiles.swift
+++ b/ios/App/App/DownloadiCloudFiles.swift
@@ -50,19 +50,6 @@ public class DownloadiCloudFiles: CAPPlugin,  UIDocumentPickerDelegate  {
         call.resolve(["success": downloaded])
      }
     
-    @objc func iCloudSync(_ call: CAPPluginCall) {
-
-        if let url = self.containerUrl, fileManager.fileExists(atPath: url.path) {
-            do {
-                downloaded = try self.downloadAllFilesFromCloud(at: url, ignorePattern: [".git", ".Trash", "bak", ".recycle"])
-            } catch {
-                print(error.localizedDescription)
-            }
-        }
-        
-        call.resolve(["success": downloaded])
-    }
-    
     func appendUndownloadedFile(at url: URL){
         var lastPathComponent = url.lastPathComponent
         lastPathComponent.removeFirst()
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/handler.cljs b/src/main/frontend/handler.cljs
index f7ec1008a..bbabeba9c 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/handler.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/handler.cljs
@@ -129,9 +129,6 @@
                                  (js/console.error "Failed to request GitHub app tokens."))))
 
                             (watch-for-date!)
-                            (when (and (state/get-current-repo)
-                                       (mobile-util/native-ios?))
-                              (mobile-util/icloud-sync!))
                             (file-handler/watch-for-current-graph-dir!)))
                          (p/then (state/pub-event! [:graph/ready (state/get-current-repo)]))
                          (p/catch (fn [error]
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/handler/repo.cljs b/src/main/frontend/handler/repo.cljs
index f96bc8c33..542c7d992 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/handler/repo.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/handler/repo.cljs
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
             [lambdaisland.glogi :as log]
             [promesa.core :as p]
             [shadow.resource :as rc]
-            [frontend.mobile.util :as mobile-util]
             [frontend.db.persist :as db-persist]
             [electron.ipc :as ipc]
             [clojure.set :as set]))
@@ -630,12 +629,9 @@
   [nfs-rebuild-index! ok-handler]
   (route-handler/redirect-to-home!)
   (when-let [repo (state/get-current-repo)]
-    (let [local? (config/local-db? repo)
-          repo-dir (config/get-repo-dir repo)]
+    (let [local? (config/local-db? repo)]
       (if local?
-        (p/let [_ (when (mobile-util/native-ios?)
-                    (mobile-util/sync-icloud-repo repo-dir))
-                _ (metadata-handler/set-pages-metadata! repo)]
+        (p/let [_ (metadata-handler/set-pages-metadata! repo)]
           (nfs-rebuild-index! repo ok-handler))
         (rebuild-index! repo))
       (js/setTimeout
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/mobile/core.cljs b/src/main/frontend/mobile/core.cljs
index de4e2da2a..7426da15f 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/mobile/core.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/mobile/core.cljs
@@ -7,12 +7,8 @@
             ["@capacitor/status-bar" :refer [^js StatusBar]]
             [clojure.string :as string]
             [frontend.fs.capacitor-fs :as fs]
-            [frontend.components.repo :as repo]
-            [frontend.handler.web.nfs :as nfs-handler]
             [frontend.handler.editor :as editor-handler]
-            [promesa.core :as p]
-            [frontend.util :as util]
-            [frontend.config :as config]))
+            [frontend.util :as util]))
 
 (defn- ios-init
   []
@@ -62,13 +58,7 @@
 
     (.addListener App "appStateChange"
                   (fn [^js state]
-                    (when-let [repo (state/get-current-repo)]
-                      (let [is-active? (.-isActive state)
-                            repo-dir (config/get-repo-dir repo)]
-                        (if is-active?
-                          (p/do!
-                           (when (mobile-util/native-ios?)
-                             (mobile-util/sync-icloud-repo repo-dir))
-                           (nfs-handler/refresh! repo repo/refresh-cb)
-                           (notification/show! "Notes updated!" :success true))
+                    (when (state/get-current-repo)
+                      (let [is-active? (.-isActive state)]
+                        (when is-active?
                           (editor-handler/save-current-block!))))))))
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/mobile/util.cljs b/src/main/frontend/mobile/util.cljs
index 35cbe8c49..f3f4808c3 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/mobile/util.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/mobile/util.cljs
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@
     :iPhoneSE4      {:width 320  :height 568  :statusbar 20}
     :iPodtouch5     {:width 320  :height 568  :statusbar 20}}))
 
-
 (defn get-idevice-model
   []
   (when (native-ios?)
@@ -129,10 +128,3 @@
     (if (and model landscape?)
       20
       (:statusbar (model @idevice-info)))))
-
-(defn icloud-sync!
-  []
-  (let [f (fn []
-            (.downloadFilesFromiCloud download-icloud-files))]
-    (f)
-    (js/setInterval f 300000)))