Get Note Properties not working on iPhone (but works on Mac)

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Hi,

I just discovered AFO, and was hoping to put it to work right away, but I ran into an issue: on my iPhone (iOS 26.3.1) with Obsidian 1.12.5, the “Get Properties for ‘Daily note’” does return an empty dictionary (but it works correctly on MacOS 26.3, same Obsidian version). Anything else I can provide to help reproduce ?

Cheers,
Laurent

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Welcome to the forum, @Laurent! I’m sorry to hear you ran into issues.

A few questions:

  1. What sync service do you use, Obsidian Sync or iCloud Sync?

  2. You’re certain the daily note in question does contain properties on mobile? This might sound like a stupid question but depending on the sync service used, it might not necessarily be the case, e.g. when the sync hasn’t happened yet. Obsidian Sync only works when the app is active, iCloud Sync is a black box and often does whatever it feels like.

  3. If the note definitely is correct in your mobile vault, it’d be helpful if you could provide me with the entire front matter block in text form. Either put it in a reply here, or in a direct message to me, or send an email to support@actions.work.

Also helpful to know: which AFO version are you on?

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Hi @czottmann, thanks for answering. You’re going to laugh, but I’m not able to reproduce the problem today. I’m using Obsidian Sync, the daily note was synced, the properties were there. To try to reproduce, I moved today’s note away, and copied yesterday’s one to today’s file, but it also works, so it does not seem to relate to the content of the frontmatter… Version of AFO is 2025.2.0 (8039).

Is AFO getting the properties from the md files directly, or from a db / cache ? Could it be that Obsidian’s cache was not up-to-date ? Anyway, I’ll try again these next few days and will feedback here if I can reproduce the problem. Now, let’s start discovering what else AFO can do for me :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Laurent

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Is AFO getting the properties from the md files directly, or from a db / cache

Yes, it’s querying Obsidian’s metadata cache, as recommended in their docs. I guess you’re on to something there :wink:

Glad you got it sorted!

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This morning, same issue, AFO got empty properties for a daily file that was created (from a template) by AFO. After some unsuccessful tries, I force quitted AFO, Obsidian and Shortcuts (on iPhone), then retried and it worked. Next time, I need to force quit only one of them, to see which one causes the issue :slight_smile: