Re: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

2016-09-20 Thread Monica Jones
I saved the post because I'l never remember it. I have a folder I call Tips 
and Tutorials where I keep info like this.



-Original Message- 
From: M. Taylor

Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 11:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes 
library


Grant,

Your conclusions are absolutely correct.

Several times during a week when I update apps on my iOS devices, I open 
iTunes and update them on the computer, as well, so as to have a good backup 
version.


I posted about this a year or so ago but I don't think it was well received 
as this method is somewhat counter intuitive to the classic way apps used to 
be handled.


Regardless, an excellent post and I hope many benefit from it.

Mark

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Grant

Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 3:06 PM
To: Viphone List
Subject: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes 
library


Hi all,

I believe it’s still possible to sync apps to iDevices from your iTunes 
library as of iOS 10. I just successfully copied an older version of the 
Tile app from my Mac to my iPhone. Once the sync process began, the app 
showed up on my home screen and displayed “loading” just as it would if it 
were being downloaded from iCloud, but I’m pretty sure it was in fact 
copying from my local library and iTunes displayed status info to verify 
this. Now I’ve successfully rolled back the app to the older version.


Based on this, I think we can continue to sync apps from iTunes keeping in 
mind the following caveats:


1. You can’t ever copy in the other direction (from an iDevice to iTunes) 
due to app thinning. However, from the Store tab in the iTunes preferences 
window you can configure your computers to download newly purchased apps 
automatically, thus giving you a local copy in iTunes that can be used 
later.
2. The auto-download feature won’t keep apps up to date. For example, if you 
have automatic downloads on and purchase BlindSquare for the first time, a 
local copy will download to your computers but future updates won’t 
automatically download—even if you update on your iDevice. To work around 
this, you can manually update from the apps section within iTunes. So, if 
you’ve kept your favourite reading app up to date from the apps section in 
iTunes and then a new version comes out that breaks accessibility, you 
should be able to roll back.
3. I’m not sure what the situation is for devices restored from iTunes 
backups and would love if someone could investigate during their next 
restore. I listened to Jonathan’s podcast and it certainly seemed like apps 
were being downloaded from iCloud so I’m not sure whether there’s a 
workaround there or what might have been happening. However, that would make 
sense if the required content wasn’t available in the iTunes library to 
begin with or if iTunes wasn’t configured to copy apps to the phone.


Would love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,

Grant

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RE: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

2016-09-18 Thread Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.
This is good information. Thanks.

What is the surest way to download all apps from the store to ones PC?

Thanks. Keith

From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Woody Anna Dresner
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 1:16 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes 
library

Hi,

Last night, I restored from an iTunes backup to my new iPhone 7. I'm pretty 
sure the apps were being copied from my computer rather than being downloaded, 
as the LCD section in iTunes said, "Copying," followed by the app name of the 
app being copied to my phone,  and the process took less time than I think it 
would have if the apps were being downloaded. All the apps were on my computer, 
and I updated them all before backing up my old phone.

Best,
Anna


Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 17, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Alan Lemly 
mailto:wale...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Grant and mark,

Thanks for this excellent post and for your original post about a year ago, 
mark. I also use iTunes to download app updates done on my iPhone to my 
computer shortly after the update. I've not had to do a restore since Ios 9 
came out but I'm encouraged that Grant was successful in rolling back to an 
older version on his computer using Itunes.

It sounds like those of us who have backups of these older versions will still 
be able to use them even with app thinning.

I'll make sure to post my experience the first time I do a restore under this 
app thinning regime.

Alan Lemly

Sent from my iPhone


On Sep 17, 2016, at 11:22 AM, M. Taylor mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>> 
wrote:

Grant,

Your conclusions are absolutely correct.

Several times during a week when I update apps on my iOS devices, I open iTunes 
and update them on the computer, as well, so as to have a good backup version.

I posted about this a year or so ago but I don't think it was well received as 
this method is somewhat counter intuitive to the classic way apps used to be 
handled.

Regardless, an excellent post and I hope many benefit from it.

Mark

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 3:06 PM
To: Viphone List
Subject: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

Hi all,

I believe it’s still possible to sync apps to iDevices from your iTunes library 
as of iOS 10. I just successfully copied an older version of the Tile app from 
my Mac to my iPhone. Once the sync process began, the app showed up on my home 
screen and displayed “loading” just as it would if it were being downloaded 
from iCloud, but I’m pretty sure it was in fact copying from my local library 
and iTunes displayed status info to verify this. Now I’ve successfully rolled 
back the app to the older version.

Based on this, I think we can continue to sync apps from iTunes keeping in mind 
the following caveats:

1. You can’t ever copy in the other direction (from an iDevice to iTunes) due 
to app thinning. However, from the Store tab in the iTunes preferences window 
you can configure your computers to download newly purchased apps 
automatically, thus giving you a local copy in iTunes that can be used later.
2. The auto-download feature won’t keep apps up to date. For example, if you 
have automatic downloads on and purchase BlindSquare for the first time, a 
local copy will download to your computers but future updates won’t 
automatically download—even if you update on your iDevice. To work around this, 
you can manually update from the apps section within iTunes. So, if you’ve kept 
your favourite reading app up to date from the apps section in iTunes and then 
a new version comes out that breaks accessibility, you should be able to roll 
back.
3. I’m not sure what the situation is for devices restored from iTunes backups 
and would love if someone could investigate during their next restore. I 
listened to Jonathan’s podcast and it certainly seemed like apps were being 
downloaded from iCloud so I’m not sure whether there’s a workaround there or 
what might have been happening. However, that would make sense if the required 
content wasn’t available in the iTunes library to begin with or if iTunes 
wasn’t configured to copy apps to the phone.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,

Grant

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Re: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

2016-09-17 Thread Grant
Hi all,

I appreciate the replies. Looks like nothing has changed since iOS 9 and that 
we can continue to use iTunes to copy apps to our devices. Again, we’ll just 
need to make sure they’re kept up to date in two places now (update on your 
iDevice first, make sure the update is accessible, then update in iTunes). 
Provided we do that there should be no issue with restoring local copies of 
apps nor with rolling back to older versions of apps.

Thanks!

Grant

> On Saturday September 17, 2016, at 11:15:52 AM, Woody Anna Dresner 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Last night, I restored from an iTunes backup to my new iPhone 7. I'm pretty 
> sure the apps were being copied from my computer rather than being 
> downloaded, as the LCD section in iTunes said, "Copying," followed by the app 
> name of the app being copied to my phone,  and the process took less time 
> than I think it would have if the apps were being downloaded. All the apps 
> were on my computer, and I updated them all before backing up my old phone.
> 
> Best,
> Anna
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Sep 17, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Alan Lemly  <mailto:wale...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Grant and mark, 
>> 
>> Thanks for this excellent post and for your original post about a year ago, 
>> mark. I also use iTunes to download app updates done on my iPhone to my 
>> computer shortly after the update. I've not had to do a restore since Ios 9 
>> came out but I'm encouraged that Grant was successful in rolling back to an 
>> older version on his computer using Itunes. 
>> 
>> It sounds like those of us who have backups of these older versions will 
>> still be able to use them even with app thinning. 
>> 
>> I'll make sure to post my experience the first time I do a restore under 
>> this app thinning regime. 
>> 
>> Alan Lemly 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 17, 2016, at 11:22 AM, M. Taylor >> <mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Grant,
>>> 
>>> Your conclusions are absolutely correct.  
>>> 
>>> Several times during a week when I update apps on my iOS devices, I open 
>>> iTunes and update them on the computer, as well, so as to have a good 
>>> backup version.  
>>> 
>>> I posted about this a year or so ago but I don't think it was well received 
>>> as this method is somewhat counter intuitive to the classic way apps used 
>>> to be handled.  
>>> 
>>> Regardless, an excellent post and I hope many benefit from it.
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
>>> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>] On 
>>> Behalf Of Grant
>>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 3:06 PM
>>> To: Viphone List
>>> Subject: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes 
>>> library
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I believe it’s still possible to sync apps to iDevices from your iTunes 
>>> library as of iOS 10. I just successfully copied an older version of the 
>>> Tile app from my Mac to my iPhone. Once the sync process began, the app 
>>> showed up on my home screen and displayed “loading” just as it would if it 
>>> were being downloaded from iCloud, but I’m pretty sure it was in fact 
>>> copying from my local library and iTunes displayed status info to verify 
>>> this. Now I’ve successfully rolled back the app to the older version.
>>> 
>>> Based on this, I think we can continue to sync apps from iTunes keeping in 
>>> mind the following caveats:
>>> 
>>> 1. You can’t ever copy in the other direction (from an iDevice to iTunes) 
>>> due to app thinning. However, from the Store tab in the iTunes preferences 
>>> window you can configure your computers to download newly purchased apps 
>>> automatically, thus giving you a local copy in iTunes that can be used 
>>> later.
>>> 2. The auto-download feature won’t keep apps up to date. For example, if 
>>> you have automatic downloads on and purchase BlindSquare for the first 
>>> time, a local copy will download to your computers but future updates won’t 
>>> automatically download—even if you update on your iDevice. To work around 
>>> this, you can manually update from the apps section within iTunes. So, if 
>>> you’ve kept your favourite reading app up to date from the apps section in 
>>> iTunes an

Re: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

2016-09-17 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi,

Last night, I restored from an iTunes backup to my new iPhone 7. I'm pretty 
sure the apps were being copied from my computer rather than being downloaded, 
as the LCD section in iTunes said, "Copying," followed by the app name of the 
app being copied to my phone,  and the process took less time than I think it 
would have if the apps were being downloaded. All the apps were on my computer, 
and I updated them all before backing up my old phone.

Best,
Anna


Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 17, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Alan Lemly  wrote:
> 
> Grant and mark, 
> 
> Thanks for this excellent post and for your original post about a year ago, 
> mark. I also use iTunes to download app updates done on my iPhone to my 
> computer shortly after the update. I've not had to do a restore since Ios 9 
> came out but I'm encouraged that Grant was successful in rolling back to an 
> older version on his computer using Itunes. 
> 
> It sounds like those of us who have backups of these older versions will 
> still be able to use them even with app thinning. 
> 
> I'll make sure to post my experience the first time I do a restore under this 
> app thinning regime. 
> 
> Alan Lemly 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 17, 2016, at 11:22 AM, M. Taylor  wrote:
>> 
>> Grant,
>> 
>> Your conclusions are absolutely correct.  
>> 
>> Several times during a week when I update apps on my iOS devices, I open 
>> iTunes and update them on the computer, as well, so as to have a good backup 
>> version.  
>> 
>> I posted about this a year or so ago but I don't think it was well received 
>> as this method is somewhat counter intuitive to the classic way apps used to 
>> be handled.  
>> 
>> Regardless, an excellent post and I hope many benefit from it.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> -----Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Grant
>> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 3:06 PM
>> To: Viphone List
>> Subject: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes 
>> library
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I believe it’s still possible to sync apps to iDevices from your iTunes 
>> library as of iOS 10. I just successfully copied an older version of the 
>> Tile app from my Mac to my iPhone. Once the sync process began, the app 
>> showed up on my home screen and displayed “loading” just as it would if it 
>> were being downloaded from iCloud, but I’m pretty sure it was in fact 
>> copying from my local library and iTunes displayed status info to verify 
>> this. Now I’ve successfully rolled back the app to the older version.
>> 
>> Based on this, I think we can continue to sync apps from iTunes keeping in 
>> mind the following caveats:
>> 
>> 1. You can’t ever copy in the other direction (from an iDevice to iTunes) 
>> due to app thinning. However, from the Store tab in the iTunes preferences 
>> window you can configure your computers to download newly purchased apps 
>> automatically, thus giving you a local copy in iTunes that can be used later.
>> 2. The auto-download feature won’t keep apps up to date. For example, if you 
>> have automatic downloads on and purchase BlindSquare for the first time, a 
>> local copy will download to your computers but future updates won’t 
>> automatically download—even if you update on your iDevice. To work around 
>> this, you can manually update from the apps section within iTunes. So, if 
>> you’ve kept your favourite reading app up to date from the apps section in 
>> iTunes and then a new version comes out that breaks accessibility, you 
>> should be able to roll back.
>> 3. I’m not sure what the situation is for devices restored from iTunes 
>> backups and would love if someone could investigate during their next 
>> restore. I listened to Jonathan’s podcast and it certainly seemed like apps 
>> were being downloaded from iCloud so I’m not sure whether there’s a 
>> workaround there or what might have been happening. However, that would make 
>> sense if the required content wasn’t available in the iTunes library to 
>> begin with or if iTunes wasn’t configured to copy apps to the phone.
>> 
>> Would love to hear your thoughts.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Grant
>> 
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Re: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

2016-09-17 Thread Alan Lemly
Grant and mark, 

Thanks for this excellent post and for your original post about a year ago, 
mark. I also use iTunes to download app updates done on my iPhone to my 
computer shortly after the update. I've not had to do a restore since Ios 9 
came out but I'm encouraged that Grant was successful in rolling back to an 
older version on his computer using Itunes. 

It sounds like those of us who have backups of these older versions will still 
be able to use them even with app thinning. 

I'll make sure to post my experience the first time I do a restore under this 
app thinning regime. 

Alan Lemly 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 17, 2016, at 11:22 AM, M. Taylor  wrote:
> 
> Grant,
> 
> Your conclusions are absolutely correct.  
> 
> Several times during a week when I update apps on my iOS devices, I open 
> iTunes and update them on the computer, as well, so as to have a good backup 
> version.  
> 
> I posted about this a year or so ago but I don't think it was well received 
> as this method is somewhat counter intuitive to the classic way apps used to 
> be handled.  
> 
> Regardless, an excellent post and I hope many benefit from it.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Grant
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 3:06 PM
> To: Viphone List
> Subject: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes 
> library
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I believe it’s still possible to sync apps to iDevices from your iTunes 
> library as of iOS 10. I just successfully copied an older version of the Tile 
> app from my Mac to my iPhone. Once the sync process began, the app showed up 
> on my home screen and displayed “loading” just as it would if it were being 
> downloaded from iCloud, but I’m pretty sure it was in fact copying from my 
> local library and iTunes displayed status info to verify this. Now I’ve 
> successfully rolled back the app to the older version.
> 
> Based on this, I think we can continue to sync apps from iTunes keeping in 
> mind the following caveats:
> 
> 1. You can’t ever copy in the other direction (from an iDevice to iTunes) due 
> to app thinning. However, from the Store tab in the iTunes preferences window 
> you can configure your computers to download newly purchased apps 
> automatically, thus giving you a local copy in iTunes that can be used later.
> 2. The auto-download feature won’t keep apps up to date. For example, if you 
> have automatic downloads on and purchase BlindSquare for the first time, a 
> local copy will download to your computers but future updates won’t 
> automatically download—even if you update on your iDevice. To work around 
> this, you can manually update from the apps section within iTunes. So, if 
> you’ve kept your favourite reading app up to date from the apps section in 
> iTunes and then a new version comes out that breaks accessibility, you should 
> be able to roll back.
> 3. I’m not sure what the situation is for devices restored from iTunes 
> backups and would love if someone could investigate during their next 
> restore. I listened to Jonathan’s podcast and it certainly seemed like apps 
> were being downloaded from iCloud so I’m not sure whether there’s a 
> workaround there or what might have been happening. However, that would make 
> sense if the required content wasn’t available in the iTunes library to begin 
> with or if iTunes wasn’t configured to copy apps to the phone.
> 
> Would love to hear your thoughts.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Grant
> 
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RE: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

2016-09-17 Thread M. Taylor
Grant,

Your conclusions are absolutely correct.  

Several times during a week when I update apps on my iOS devices, I open iTunes 
and update them on the computer, as well, so as to have a good backup version.  

I posted about this a year or so ago but I don't think it was well received as 
this method is somewhat counter intuitive to the classic way apps used to be 
handled.  

Regardless, an excellent post and I hope many benefit from it.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Grant
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 3:06 PM
To: Viphone List
Subject: Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

Hi all,

I believe it’s still possible to sync apps to iDevices from your iTunes library 
as of iOS 10. I just successfully copied an older version of the Tile app from 
my Mac to my iPhone. Once the sync process began, the app showed up on my home 
screen and displayed “loading” just as it would if it were being downloaded 
from iCloud, but I’m pretty sure it was in fact copying from my local library 
and iTunes displayed status info to verify this. Now I’ve successfully rolled 
back the app to the older version.

Based on this, I think we can continue to sync apps from iTunes keeping in mind 
the following caveats:

1. You can’t ever copy in the other direction (from an iDevice to iTunes) due 
to app thinning. However, from the Store tab in the iTunes preferences window 
you can configure your computers to download newly purchased apps 
automatically, thus giving you a local copy in iTunes that can be used later.
2. The auto-download feature won’t keep apps up to date. For example, if you 
have automatic downloads on and purchase BlindSquare for the first time, a 
local copy will download to your computers but future updates won’t 
automatically download—even if you update on your iDevice. To work around this, 
you can manually update from the apps section within iTunes. So, if you’ve kept 
your favourite reading app up to date from the apps section in iTunes and then 
a new version comes out that breaks accessibility, you should be able to roll 
back.
3. I’m not sure what the situation is for devices restored from iTunes backups 
and would love if someone could investigate during their next restore. I 
listened to Jonathan’s podcast and it certainly seemed like apps were being 
downloaded from iCloud so I’m not sure whether there’s a workaround there or 
what might have been happening. However, that would make sense if the required 
content wasn’t available in the iTunes library to begin with or if iTunes 
wasn’t configured to copy apps to the phone.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,

Grant

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Experimenting with app thinning and copying apps from my iTunes library

2016-09-16 Thread Grant
Hi all,

I believe it’s still possible to sync apps to iDevices from your iTunes library 
as of iOS 10. I just successfully copied an older version of the Tile app from 
my Mac to my iPhone. Once the sync process began, the app showed up on my home 
screen and displayed “loading” just as it would if it were being downloaded 
from iCloud, but I’m pretty sure it was in fact copying from my local library 
and iTunes displayed status info to verify this. Now I’ve successfully rolled 
back the app to the older version.

Based on this, I think we can continue to sync apps from iTunes keeping in mind 
the following caveats:

1. You can’t ever copy in the other direction (from an iDevice to iTunes) due 
to app thinning. However, from the Store tab in the iTunes preferences window 
you can configure your computers to download newly purchased apps 
automatically, thus giving you a local copy in iTunes that can be used later.
2. The auto-download feature won’t keep apps up to date. For example, if you 
have automatic downloads on and purchase BlindSquare for the first time, a 
local copy will download to your computers but future updates won’t 
automatically download—even if you update on your iDevice. To work around this, 
you can manually update from the apps section within iTunes. So, if you’ve kept 
your favourite reading app up to date from the apps section in iTunes and then 
a new version comes out that breaks accessibility, you should be able to roll 
back.
3. I’m not sure what the situation is for devices restored from iTunes backups 
and would love if someone could investigate during their next restore. I 
listened to Jonathan’s podcast and it certainly seemed like apps were being 
downloaded from iCloud so I’m not sure whether there’s a workaround there or 
what might have been happening. However, that would make sense if the required 
content wasn’t available in the iTunes library to begin with or if iTunes 
wasn’t configured to copy apps to the phone.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,

Grant

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