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# CKSyncEngineSyncReason

Describes the reason for a sync operation.

```
enum CKSyncEngineSyncReason
```

## Topics

### Sync reasons

[`CKSyncEngineSyncReason.scheduled`](/documentation/CloudKit/CKSyncEngineSyncReason/scheduled)

The sync engine automatically scheduled this sync.

[`CKSyncEngineSyncReason.manual`](/documentation/CloudKit/CKSyncEngineSyncReason/manual)

A manual sync operation.


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