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: [email protected]
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
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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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