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Hide or Re-Sync Uninstalled Games

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The Wand iPad app continues to show games that are no longer installed on my PC. On the desktop app, I can use “Hide from Sidebar” to remove these games from view, but that setting does not appear to carry over to the iPad app.

Please add the ability to hide or remove individual games directly from the Wand iPad app. Ideally, hiding a game from the sidebar in the desktop application should automatically sync to the mobile app as well.

I would also like to see a “Rescan Installed Games” or “Resync Game Library” feature in the Wand desktop application. With a single click, Wand could rescan all configured game libraries on the PC—such as Steam, Epic Games, Xbox, and other supported libraries—and compare the results against the games currently shown in Wand. Games that are no longer installed could then automatically be removed or hidden from the installed-games list.

For example, I uninstalled Outbound and hid it from the Wand desktop sidebar, but Outbound still appears in my game list on the iPad with no option to remove or hide it.

Having both manual removal and a full rescan/resync option would make it much easier to keep the Wand game library accurate and synchronized across desktop and mobile without having to clean up outdated entries individually.

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  • Pebbled changed status to Triaged
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    Oct 3

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    Hi there,

    RE: Hide or Re-Sync Uninstalled Games

    “The Wand iPad app continues to show games that are no longer installed on my PC. On the desktop app, I can use “Hide from Sidebar” to remove these games from view, but that setting does not appear to carry over to the iPad app.

    Please add the ability to hide or remove individual games directly from the Wand iPad app. Ideally, hiding a game from the sidebar in the desktop application should automatically sync to the mobile app as well.

    I would also like to see a “Rescan Installed Games” or “Resync Game Library” feature in the Wand desktop application. With a single click, Wand could rescan all configured game libraries on the PC—such as Steam, Epic Games, Xbox, and other supported libraries—and compare the results against the games currently shown in Wand. Games that are no longer installed could then automatically be removed or hidden from the installed-games list.

    For example, I uninstalled Outbound and hid it from the Wand desktop sidebar, but Outbound still appears in my game list on the iPad with no option to remove or hide it.

    Having both manual removal and a full rescan/resync option would make it much easier to keep the Wand game library accurate and synchronized across desktop and mobile without having to clean up outdated entries individually.“

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    Hi there, thanks for the detailed write-up, and for the Outbound example showing exactly where the iPad app falls out of step with the desktop app.

    We've passed your feedback on to the team: the games in the iPad app should sync correctly to reflect what's in your Wand desktop app on PC, and games you've removed there should disappear from the iPad app as well. There's already an open request covering the rescan idea, so we'd suggest adding your upvote there so it's counted alongside the others: https://hub.wand.com/dashboard/requests/feature-scan-for-games

    Thanks again for taking the time to lay this out!