I haven’t used S3D for awhile but in the old version I explicitly turned off cloud sync. Now with the latest update on macOS: S3D Version 26.10.0 (10376), it restarted sync automatically without my permission. And to make things even worse, there is no longer an option to turn off cloud sync. What’…

Because of this post, I postponed updating S3D on all my devices. Can anyone confirm the op’s complaint?

[image] Disabling Sync or leaving the Shapr3D Need help? We are here. For those who enjoy tinkering, it remains available: com.shapr3d.shapr.plist

Thanks BKE, I’m not sure if that would be feasable on iPadOS - which is my main platform. Could anyone please tell me, if it’s true (or not), that syncing is now enforced (on iPad) - even though I’ve never agreed on that? That’s how it looks up until 26.1.0 [image]

For everyone residing in the EU who has a Plus subscription: we could consider filing a (class-action) lawsuit for violation of the EU GDPR. None of us has ever consented to the transfer of our intellectual property to a third-party server, so such a lawsuit would likely have a good chance of succes…

Does this do what you want? [image]

Certainly not. This option allows you to keep a local copy of the projects that are already uploaded to cloud. What we are discussing here is an option to completely disable uploading to cloud.

Need to disable cloud sync!

Need help? We are here.

zach March 12, 2026, 2:33pm 5

I think you were on this post as well. S3D staff has made it clear that forcing users to upload their projects to cloud is indeed their intention.

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Need to disable cloud sync!

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