Hello I am completely blind and have been using an iPhone for several years now. One of the problems us blind users clearly face is some apps become inaccessible in updated versions. Since Apple does not provide any way to reverse an update if we don't have a backup of the application we are screwed. What I do to avoid this problem as much as possible is sync my iPhone with my computer at least once a month. Before and after I do I copy everything in the mobile application folder into another folder. Therefore even if applications have been updated on the phone and iTunes Deletes them from the default mobile application folder I always have a running back up of older versions of applications. If an application becomes inaccessible I delete it from the phone. I then go to the computer delete the latest version from iTunes as well. I Then go to file open in iTunes and look for a previous version in my backup of my applications. Once added to iTunes from my backup I sync it with my phone.
So if you want to maintain a backup of all previous versions of app so you will avoid the problem of them being inaccessible in later versions be sure to make a copy now of everything in your mobile application folder and do so after every sync with the phone I would also turn off the option in iTunes to download purchased applications on the iPhone. You don't want iTunes automatically downloading applications you purchase on your iPhone because older versions are deleted from the default mobile application folder. They might be deleted before you have the opportunity to back them up. Also consider keeping a running back up of mobile applications on your computer will take up a great deal of space depending on how many applications you have. But if you have multiple hard drives as I do it not a big deal Feel free to ask any questions and good luck. Hopefully Apple will require that app designers make your applications accessible with all the features of the iPhone as much as possible sometime in the future -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
