According to the company, you will need a New York Times (NYT) account to be able to save and sync Wordle streaks. You can use an existing free or paid account or sign up for a new one. The feature started rolling out this Wednesday, i. e. July 13. It should be available to everyone over the next few days. Once you have it, you will be able to sign in with your NYT account and take your Wordle streak wherever you go. The New York Times notes that this process is irreversible. Meaning that once you link the game’s stats to an NYT account, you cannot unlink it. But this isn’t ideal. People may want to unlink Wordle from the NYT profile for various reasons. Or, perhaps, switch accounts. Hopefully, the publication will look into it.
Wordle now lets players sync their streaks across devices
Launched in October last year, Wordle Quickly rose to fame. The New York Times snapped up the daily word game from its original developer for an undisclosed fee in January this year. Its popularity grew so much that someone even managed to put it on an original Nintendo Game Boy. However, the game lacked one key feature all this while: the ability to sync your stats and streaks across devices. Streaks hold a significant value to anyone playing daily games like Wordle. The longer your streak goes, the better you feel about the game and the more encouraged you are to come back again the next day. Since everyone now uses more than one device with a screen and internet connection, it’s quite important that these streaks sync across all the devices. This enables people to continue their streaks regardless of which device they are using. Unfortunately, up until now, Wordle only saved device-specific streaks. So if you switch to another device, all the stats and streaks are gone. Following numerous complaints from players, The New York Times has now finally introduced the cross-device syncing feature to Wordle. Hopefully, the company hasn’t messed up anything like it did when moving players from the original website to its own. Several users complained of losing their streaks after this migration.
