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Using patchio offline

No signal? patchio keeps going. In a Tube tunnel, in the supermarket basement or on a plane, the app shows you the last loaded state of your key areas – and anything you get done on the way, it catches up on by itself later.

What you can see offline

As long as you've opened the area once before with a connection, you'll see it offline too – as it stood at the last load:

your calendar
your tasks and points
your shopping lists
who's home (who's where right now)
your health day (Today)
the directory and the emergency card
your loyalty cards, ready to show at the till

Anything you've never opened with a connection, patchio can't conjure up offline – that area stays empty until you're back online.

What you can do offline

A few things work without a connection too – they're remembered and sent later:

ticking off tasks (and routines/doses in the health area)
adding, ticking off and deleting shopping items
recording individual events

These changes show up in the app straight away, but carry a small circling-arrows mark for “syncing” until they're sent the next time you have a connection.

What doesn't work offline

Some things need the internet and will say so, gently: “Doesn't work offline – try again once you're back online.”

uploading photos and files (profile pictures, receipts, documents)
sending invitations
creating repeating events (single events work offline, repeats don't)
anything to do with your subscription (buying, managing)

How syncing works

As soon as your device has a connection again, patchio sends your offline changes automatically – in the order you made them. It then reloads the affected areas fresh, so you see the current state everywhere. You don't need to press anything.

The circling-arrows mark on an entry disappears once that change has been sent. If a change simply won't go through after several tries, patchio drops it rather than blocking the whole queue.

And if the server rejects a change – say, because you're not actually allowed to delete that entry, or your access is no longer active – patchio now tells you: a red notice at the top (“… couldn't be saved”) asking you to reload the page. Before, a change like that would vanish silently, and the app kept showing your version instead of the real one.

The offline banner

A quiet notice appears under the header when you're looking at a mirrored state:

“Offline – state from 14:32” means: you're seeing the last loaded state, from that time. If it's older than that, the day is shown too – “yesterday, 14:32” or “18/07, 14:32” – so you don't mistake a day-old state for today's.
Back online, but changes are still waiting to be sent? The banner briefly shows “Syncing…” and disappears once everything's through.

No banner means: everything you see is freshly loaded.