Always sync on save

Feature Requests Password Manager
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Bitwarden should always initiate a sync whenever I save something. It currently takes too much effort from me to add information to my vault on one device and access it on another.

  1. Save some data in the extension on machine A.
  2. Navigate to Settings → Vault options → Sync vault now and click it.
  3. Launch the extension on machine B.
  4. Navigate to Settings → Vault options → Sync vault now and click it.
  5. Search for the data on machine B.

This is way, way too much effort to just send a bit of data from one place to another. Step 2 could trivially be automated, in which case it saves me 3+ clicks and a lot of squinting at the UI.

Prior art:
Auto-Sync on all platformes — solves step 4
Add option to sync whenever something is being saved — equivalent request for the desktop app

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Bitwarden already uses “Live Sync”, which automatically pushes vault modifications to all open clients. If this is not working for you, you may want to contact Customer Support, or make a post in the Ask the Community section of the forum.

Will be closing this feature request, as it describes a function that has already been implemented.

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When I set up the organization, there was no synchronization at all at the beginning. I had to do it manually.

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FYI, Live Sync is only available for individual vaults; organization vaults are synced on a 30-min schedule.

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Yeah it seems like I was experiencing some momentary issue because testing it now it works. Yesterday when I made this post, I was able to see from the “last synced” time (on the “Sync vault now” button) that sync had not happened upon saving.

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Thanks for the info. Why does Bitwarden work with 30 minutes?

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