Is there a way to send or export my edits from the cloud to my external SSD?

As a hobbyist, I don't feel I need the robust catalog management of Lightroom Classic, and the clunky cloud sync it uses.  I love that we can now use local folders on Lightroom (desktop)!  I plan to take advantage of this and do my edits from an external SSD.  I understand that images I edit, flag, etc., will get a sidecar file on the SSD, and that I can send whatever I want to the cloud, and then if I make further edits locally I can update the cloud file to get those additional edits.

My question is, let's say I edit an image locally, then send it to the cloud, and then do edits on my ipad, or I'm on vacation with just my iPad and I import images to Lr on that (which get stored in the cloud, and I've also transfered the raw files to the SSD) and do some edits.  How can I get those edits done on the ipad and stored in the cloud exported so I can put them on my SSD?  Is there a way to get the .xmp sidecar file with the edit info that I can then load into the folder on the SSD where the images live?