The responses from Forms are no longer automatically syncing to Excel.

The responses from Forms are no longer automatically syncing to Excel.

I received an email stating, "Please update your form before January 13, 2025 to continue seeing the most recent Forms data in Excel with the new and improved sync. If you don't update, your responses won't continue to sync after this date. To start the update, open your Form from forms.office.com or click the button below. Thanks for using Forms."

After updating, I saw the message in Excel: "The sync with Forms has been updated. This workbook will continue to sync with the latest responses from Forms. The updated sync currently works only in Excel for the web and will soon be available on desktop. Once responses are synced, you will be able to view them on both web and desktop. This update cannot be undone."

However, even after the update, it does not sync unless I open Excel in the browser.

I would like it to sync automatically again without having to open it in a browser like before.

Does "it will soon be available on desktop" mean that eventually, it will sync automatically without having to open Excel?

How long should I wait?

By the way, since the Forms were created from a Teams channel, they are likely group forms.

This is the screen when I updated it.