How to Sync PDF Across Devices? (Step by Step)

Whether you are a student or a business official, you might have come across a moment when you needed to copy a file from one of your devices to another. When you must do this repetitively, things can get frustrating. It is very important to learn how to sync PDF across devices.

This guide is going to share multiple ways to manually and automatically sync your documents. Hence, you can access all your documents on all your devices without any hassle.

How to Sync PDF with UPDF?

The first and the most effective option for syncing your PDF documents across devices is UPDF. With the UPDF Cloud feature, you can easily upload your PDFs into the dedicated cloud storage. It not only helps organize your PDFs better but also ensures that they are easy to access.

With UPDF Cloud you can organize your PDF in different folders for better organization. The best part about it is that you can use your account on any device with internet connectivity to access your PDFs anywhere at any time.

Additionally, if you want to make changes to your PDFs and you open them through UPDF Cloud, those changes will also be synced across your devices.

So, download the UPDF app on all your devices and get a first-hand experience of using UPDF Cloud and other features.

How to Sync PDF from Mac/Windows to iPad/iPhone/Android?

The first way of using UPDF to sync your documents is when you have the document on your computer.

This method will work when you are using the Mac or Windows app of UPDF, and you want the documents synced onto your smartphones or tablets.

Step 1:

Run the UPDF application on your computer and from the home page click the "UPDF Cloud" option that is present in the left menu pane. From here you can click the "Upload File" button to get the file explorer window. Click the file you want to upload and click "Open” so that it begins uploading to UPDF Cloud.

Step 2:

If you do not want to upload the PDF into the root folder but want to organize your documents, then you may click the “+New Folder” button and then name your folder. After writing your folder’s name, click “OK” and that folder will be created in UPDF Cloud. Click the folder to go inside it and then click “Upload File” to upload PDFs in this folder.

Take your smartphone or tablet and tap the UPDF app icon to open the app. On the home screen you will see the "UPDF Cloud” option, click it to go inside UPDF Cloud and now you can open all uploaded documents and folders with their complete contents.

With this method, if you want to upload PDFs into the root/main folder then it will not take more than 1 step to sync your documents. Every time you upload something to UPDF Cloud, it will automatically sync with all your devices.

How to Sync PDF from iPad/iPhone/Android?

Do you have your documents on your iPhone, Android, or iPad device and you want to sync it with other devices like computers? That is also possible when using UPDF Cloud and it makes the process very simple with the following steps:

First of all, download UPDF on you phone via the below button or go to App Store and Google Play.

Step 1:

On your smartphone or tablet locate the UPDF application icon and tap it to open UPDF. Now. locate the “UPDF Cloud" tile and tap it to go inside the UPDF Cloud feature. To upload files, tap the “+” button present on the bottom right and select “From Files”. It will open the “Files” app where you can tap on PDFs to select and tap “Open" from the top right to upload them to UPDF Cloud.

Step 2:

If you want to create a folder in UPDF for organizing your documents, tap the “+” and this time you will tap “New Folder”. Now, enter the name of your folder and click “Done" to create it. Tap the folder to open it and tap the "+” button then select “From Files” to upload PDFs in this folder.

Step 3:

Using the desktop icon of UPDF software, open it on your computer and go to “UPDF Cloud” from the left pane. Now, you can locate your PDFs in its grid view with the most recent ones present at the top. Click on any PDF to open it inside the UPDF interface and you may use other features like editing or annotations.

When uploading your PDFs from smartphones or tablets to UPDF for syncing them across all other devices, it takes around 5 taps which makes the whole process very simple and quick.

You can watch the below video to learn more about how to use UPDF Cloud to sync PDF files.

UPDF offers a free version that comes with most of its features available so you can download and get its experience for free. However, if you want the most premium experience then get the UPDF Pro version that unlocks all the features. It is very cheap and only costs 17% of Adobe Acrobat. To have an overview of UPDF, you can read this review article.

How to Sync PDF with Adobe Acrobat?

Adobe Acrobat is known as a premium PDF tool that comes with a hefty price tag. However, one of its benefits is that it brings Adobe Cloud Storage along which is great when you want to sync your PDFs across your devices.

 The process is relatively easy with only 2 of the following steps required:

Step 1:

Tun the Adobe Acrobat application on your computer and open your PDF by clicking “Open PDF” and selecting the PDF then clicking “Open" in the file explorer window. As your PDF opens click the "Save Changes to Adobe Cloud Storage" button from the top. Now, wait until it successfully uploads your document to Adobe Cloud Storage.

Step 2:

Now, tap the Adobe Acrobat application icon on your smartphone. Click the “Files" button below and select the "Adobe Cloud Storage” option from locations. Finally, you can see the PDF file in recent and tap it to preview and access other Adobe Acrobat features.

With these steps, you can manually upload all your documents to Adobe Cloud Storage, and they will be automatically synced across your devices.

Also Read: UPDF vs Adobe Acrobat

How to Sync PDF with Google Drive?

Almost everyone has a Google Account and Google Drive comes as a cloud storage with that account. The good thing about Google Drive is that it is available on all platforms with native experience.

Hence, it makes syncing your documents very quick and simple with the following steps:

Step 1:

Go to the Google Drive desktop application or web application and log in with your "Google Account”. Click the “+New" button from the top left of the Google Drive interface and select file or folder uploading options according to your requirements. Select the file you want to upload from the file-explorer popup window and click "Upload” to upload it to Google Drive.

Step 2:

Now, open the Google Drive app on another device like a computer or a smartphone. For example, if you open it on a smartphone, you can tap "3-bars" from the top left and select "Recent" On the top you will see the file that you just uploaded.

By using this method, you can automatically sync any PDFs you upload to Google Drive among all your devices.

How to Sync PDF with iCloud?

Although iCloud has its Windows app available and a web app is also available, this method is best recommended for those people who have invested in Apple Ecosystem. It is because when the same ID is used across all their devices, the documents automatically synchronize leaving no manual work required. Here is how you can sync PDF with iCloud:

Step 1:

Open your MacBook Settings and search for “iCloud Drive" From the search results click the top one and click "iCloud Drive" Now, you must turn on both options which are "iCloud Drive” and “Desktop and Documents Folders”. To sync your PDFs with your iCloud account, keep them either in the Desktop folder or the Documents folder.

Step 2:

On the iPhone tap "Settings” and search for “iCloud Drive" and make sure that the "Sync this iPhone” option is turned on. This way both your devices will sync all their data over the iCloud platform.

With this method it does not matter if your PDFs are present on a Mac or iPhone, they will be automatically synced with the other device. Moreover, you do not need to manually upload every file when using this method. Now, you can find these synced PDFs in the iCloud Drive folder on both devices.

Conclusion

No matter which method you pick, knowing how to sync PDF across devices is the most crucial thing. We hope that with this guide you have come across multiple effective options among which UPDF is the best. It is because it works on Windows PCs and Macs for computer platform and on iOS and Android for Smartphone and Tablet platform.

Download UPDF on all your devices to try it today.