The board chooses where it lives — swipe-open settings move it between iCloud and this iPhone

A trailing swipe on a board row opens Board Settings, whose first setting is location: iCloud or Local, with a confirmed move to the other side — destructive-styled only outbound, because leaving iCloud is the direction that sheds protection. The move is setUbiquitous against the real container and a coordinated move under the DEBUG stand-in; evacuation sweeps materialization first and refuses honestly while content is still downloading. The local home is the sandbox Documents folder, published to the Files app, so a local board is still a folder the user owns.

With a second home the iCloud wall softens (user-ruled 2026-08-08): the index always reaches ready, cloud unavailability becomes an inline notice with a retry, creates land locally when there is no account, and LANEWORK_FORCE_NO_ICLOUD makes that state reproducible in tests regardless of the machine's sign-in. Known gap, now user-reachable: backup remains iCloud-only, so local boards sit outside it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY

KanbanMobile/Cloud/BoardSummary.swift

@@ -30,6 +30,32 @@ struct BoardSummary: Identifiable, Sendable, Equatable {
     let modified: Date?
 
     let download: BoardDownloadState
+
+    /// Which of the phone's two homes this board is in.
+    let location: BoardLocation
+}
+
+/// Where a board is stored, and therefore whether it syncs.
+///
+/// **Told, never sniffed.** A location is what the home an entry was enumerated from *is*, so the
+/// index tags it at the point where that is a fact (`BoardIndexStore`, which holds both roots) and
+/// everything downstream carries the tag. Deriving it from the URL instead would mean deciding
+/// whether a path is inside a ubiquity container by looking at it — a question that has no stable
+/// answer across the real container, the DEBUG stand-in root and a test's scratch directories.
+enum BoardLocation: Sendable, Equatable {
+    /// The `CloudHome` — syncs to the Mac and to every other device on the account.
+    case icloud
+
+    /// The `DeviceHomeResolver` home — this phone, and nowhere else.
+    case local
+
+    /// The one word the list marker, the settings sheet and its move button all name it by.
+    var name: String {
+        switch self {
+        case .icloud: "iCloud"
+        case .local: "Local"
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// Whether a board's bytes are on this device — the summary-level reading, from the metadata item's
@@ -69,6 +95,9 @@ struct BoardIndexEntry: Sendable, Equatable {
     let rootURL: URL
     let modified: Date?
     let download: BoardDownloadState
+
+    /// Set by whoever produced the entry, from the home it enumerated — see `BoardLocation`.
+    let location: BoardLocation
 }
 
 /// Turns an index entry into a summary by looking, shallowly, at the package.
@@ -106,7 +135,8 @@ enum BoardSummaryScanner {
                 laneCount: nil,
                 cardCount: nil,
                 modified: entry.modified,
-                download: entry.download
+                download: entry.download,
+                location: entry.location
             )
         }
 
@@ -123,7 +153,8 @@ enum BoardSummaryScanner {
                 laneCount: nil,
                 cardCount: nil,
                 modified: entry.modified,
-                download: entry.download
+                download: entry.download,
+                location: entry.location
             )
         }
 
@@ -140,7 +171,8 @@ enum BoardSummaryScanner {
             laneCount: lanes,
             cardCount: cards,
             modified: entry.modified,
-            download: entry.download
+            download: entry.download,
+            location: entry.location
         )
     }