Yeah, that would be interesting to know. After all, when you upgrade over
the air everything (usually) comes back absolutely sorted as you left it,
though I know for some upgrades (if you have the space) it's not necessary
that the information is removed, so perhaps that's why! <Smiles>
Anyone know?
Carol P
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From: "Vicky Collins" <v-coll...@sbcglobal.net>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 6:04 AM
Subject: is app data included in the iCloud backup
I know that app data does get backed up to the cloud, but I'm wondering if
it is a part of an actual iCloud backup, or is it treated separately like
contacts and calendar data? What is prompting me to ask the question, is
that I'm trying to figure out just how my app data got restored back to my
iPhone 6.
Somehow, after I upgraded to iOS 9 from the iOS 9 public beta, opting to
do that rather than upgrade to the iOS 9.1 beta, I goofed up something
during the process. For, when I tried to restore from iTunes, only my
default apps were showing up, even though my device settings appeared to
be restored. Then, when I tried to restore from an iCloud backup, I was
told there were no backups of my device, even though I had backed up to
iCloud just a few days before. Although, to be fair, I had checked iCloud
earlier before I started this process and was told there were no backups,
and in fact, the several backups I had then tried to perform had failed,
something I just attributed to using the beta. I had, though, just done
an encrypted iTunes backup manually.
Thus, after several attempts to restore my apps from the iTunes backup not
working, I finally just restored once again from that iTunes backup that
preserved my settings, and then I manually went in and put all my apps
back on the phone. I first started adding them through iTunes, but found
that more time consuming than I liked, so used the app store on my phone
to put the rest of them back. Then, I was fully prepared to either put
all my app data on the phone manually, or just live without it, depending
on the app. So, you can imagine just how pleased I was to go into all my
apps and find all my data there and up to date. For examples, my two
checkbook programs had my account transactions even from earlier that day,
Ariadne GPS showed all my favorites and Weather Radio still showed my
selected cities. I figured I had overwritten the iTunes backup with all
my attempts to fix things, and I had lost my prior iCloud backup somehow
when working with the beta.
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