Hi Alan, first, thank you so much for buying the book. My understanding is that now, if you own an app that is no longer in the store, you could be outa luck. This article <http://www.imore.com/apps-disappeared-after-restoring-backup-your-iphone-6s-heres-fix> has a good explanation of the current state of things and talks about the restore process with the aid of the new app thinning technology. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 13/09/2016, at 3:09 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm still somewhat confused about what apps are restored to a device > following an encrypted backup restore. I know this changed with iOS 9 and I > just read in Jonathan Mosen's iOS 10 Without the Eye new book that apps > aren't restored from an iTunes encrypted backup. > > So let's say I decide at some point to buy a new iPhone 7. I'll backup my > iPhone 6 to an encrypted iTunes backup from which I'll restore to my new > iPhone 7. What version of the apps will be restored to my new iPhone if I > were running other than the latest version on my iPhone 6? I've made sure I > have backed up copies of these versions to my computer using iTunes. It > sounds from Jonathan's book as if only the latest version of my apps will be > restored from Apple's servers. Is that right? What about apps that I happened > to be running on my iPhone 6 that are no longer available in the Apps Store? > Will I have to go through some extra hoops placing backup copies of these > older versions in my Automatically Add to iTunes folder in order to get them > on my new iPhone? > > Thanks for any help clarifying what apps are restored following an iOS 9 and > later iTunes restore. > > Alan Lemly > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > 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. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > 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 [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
