restoring apps from iCloud backup again
Hi Raul and All, I have no idea why it only occurs to me to do a google search after I've asked my question. But, in answer to the question I posed yesterday as to why some of my apps needed to be updated again after doing the iCloud backup, perhaps I found the answer in some Apple support documents, and looks like you were on the right track with that history idea. I'll quote a few lines of text from two articles, first the link and quoted text from one article, and then the same from the next: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph12521 After using an iCloud backup to restore or set up a device: . Your settings and accounts are restored from the iCloud backup you chose. Your device restarts and begins downloading your purchased music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, Camera Roll, and other content. If your device can't download the version of an app that was backed up, it downloads the latest version. Your purchased content is automatically downloaded from the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store based on iTunes in the Cloud availability by country. Previous purchases may be unavailable if they have been refunded or are no longer available in the store. And, taken from: support.apple.com/kb/PH12519 Here's what iCloud backs up: . Purchased history for music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books Your iCloud backup includes information about the content you have purchased, but not the purchased content itself. When you restore from an iCloud backup, your purchased content is automatically downloaded from the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store. Automatic downloading is based on iTunes in the Cloud availability by country, and previous purchases may be unavailable if they have been refunded or are no longer available in the store. . Photos and videos in your Camera Roll . Device settings . App data . Home screen and app organization . iMessage, text (SMS), and MMS messages . Ringtones . Visual Voicemail Your iOS device backup only includes data and settings stored on your device. It doesn't include data already stored in iCloud, for example contacts, calendars, bookmarks, mail messages, notes, shared photo streams, My Photo Stream, and documents you save in iCloud using iOS apps and Mac apps. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
restoring apps from iCloud backup
I understand that, when one restores from an iCloud backup, the apps that are restored are the most current versions. Thus, I'm wondering why, when I've done my last few restores from iCloud, I have apps showing up in the app store as needing to be updated? For example, I tried to rearrange some apps on my home screen, but I somehow managed to get things way off from what I wanted, so erased everything from my iPhone and restored from iCloud. My most recent backup had been two days prior to when I was doing the restore, and I had updated two apps since that backup. However, after the restore, and even after a reboot of the phone, I was still told I had two apps that needed to be updated, and those were indeed the ones after that most recent backup. So, well, then, to make that information from the app store go away, of course I just performed the update for those apps again. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: restoring apps from iCloud backup
Hello. That is odd for sure. My only guess is that the backup stores some form of data which contains the last time an app was updated. If that is not synchronized with Apple's servers then perhaps things are not updated correctly. However even that doesn't make sense because from what I understand the Bakup does not store the actual app itself, just the name and the fact that you had it. So in theory when it restores back to your phone, it should automatically pull down the most current app based on its name. I believe you have an unsolved mystery here. --- Sent from Raul's rectangular glass - 832.554.7285 Please excuse any auto complete or dictation weirdness. On Mar 31, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Vicky Collins v-coll...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I understand that, when one restores from an iCloud backup, the apps that are restored are the most current versions. Thus, I'm wondering why, when I've done my last few restores from iCloud, I have apps showing up in the app store as needing to be updated? For example, I tried to rearrange some apps on my home screen, but I somehow managed to get things way off from what I wanted, so erased everything from my iPhone and restored from iCloud. My most recent backup had been two days prior to when I was doing the restore, and I had updated two apps since that backup. However, after the restore, and even after a reboot of the phone, I was still told I had two apps that needed to be updated, and those were indeed the ones after that most recent backup. So, well, then, to make that information from the app store go away, of course I just performed the update for those apps again. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
