Stop OneDrive from nagging to backup

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Stop OneDrive from nagging to backup

Em Kay 0

I do not have the OneDrive app installed on my iPhone/iPad. The only MS app I have is SwiftKey. Each time I use SwiftKey OneDrive wants to perform a back up. Can I stop that nag without deleting SwiftKey?

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Diana Mariz 10,910 Independent Advisor

Hi Em,

As per checking, on the iPhone/iPad, SwiftKey can connect to OneDrive to back up your keyboard dictionary and settings regardless if you don’t have the OneDrive app installed, SwiftKey itself will still prompt you to use OneDrive for backup. That’s why you keep seeing the message.

However, in order to stop the prompt, you can disable Backup & Sync in SwiftKey settings and sign out of your Microsoft account inside SwiftKey. That way, SwiftKey won’t try to use OneDrive at all, and you can keep using the keyboard without interruptions.

Marek 0 Reputation points

2026-06-11T11:28:04.6233333+00:00

Hello, this advice doesn't work. I've logged in, turned off backup, logged out - I still get this extremely annoying pop-up. I find it incredible that this pop-up annoys users even when they're logged in but have backup turned off. How is it possible that MS decided to annoy people who don't want to have the backup turned on? This is simply unacceptable. This is not the first time MS has gone completely against its users lately - it probably doesn't care that it's irreparably damaging its name. I'm very close to removing Swiftkey for good as enough is enough..
Sith Val 0 Reputation points

2026-06-11T14:40:17.44+00:00

Those instructions don't work. I have followed them precisely as you've listed them. Do you have steps that will work? Please let me know how I can get rid of this constant interruption that I have to tap out of whenever I need to type something. Edit: I logged back in to see if the sync had miraculously been turned back on after I logged out. And guess what. It was! So it doesn't seem to matter if I try to delink my Swiftkey, you force the sync anyway even without an account login.