Hello all,
I just received yesterday a 3rd gen iPad and set it up by restoring settings from a 4th gen iPod Touch saved in iCloud.
Everything was fine at first, I installed a bunch of apps from the store etc.
This morning, I used the device for a couple of hours; everything was fine.
I left it for maybe an hour, and when I came back to it a number of my apps had suddenly disappeared, without me doing anything.
The apps were Camera and a couple of other pre-installed apps.
Spotlight search wasn't giving any results.
I searched the Internet for similar problems, but the only reports I found were about devices on which Microsoft exchange accounts were set (= not my case) and problems with restrictions.
I went to the settings screen and checked: I had no restrictions set, all the apps were supposed to be on.
Just in case, I tried turning off the Camera app through the restrictions menu, and then immediately turning it back on again: the Camera app magically re-appeared, along with the other missing ones.
A few minutes later, I tried downloading a bunch of games I had previously purchased, namely Batman Arkham City and Modern Combat 3, and at the same time, my daugther asked me to download some kid's app of hers.
When I got back to the Home screen, only my daughter's app was appearing, but the download progress bar wasn't moving.
I supposed this was because the device was actually downloading the other two apps (Batman and Modern Combat), which are big downloads. But their icons were nowhere to be seen on the device. And again, spotlight search was giving me no results.
Searched the internet: again, "restrictions" came up as a potential culprit.
So I went to restrictions.
And again: all apps were marked as "allowed".
I thought the problem might be the same as with Camera, so I gave a shot at the same solution : applying restrictions to all apps but 4+, and immediately re-allowing everything back.
Went back to the Home screen, and... Everything was magically there!
Has anyone had the same problem here?
PS: by the way, I checked for potential settings inconsistencies between the iPod touch and the iPad: everything was fine. Both are running iOS 5.1, and the restrictions settings were perfectly identical.
I just received yesterday a 3rd gen iPad and set it up by restoring settings from a 4th gen iPod Touch saved in iCloud.
Everything was fine at first, I installed a bunch of apps from the store etc.
This morning, I used the device for a couple of hours; everything was fine.
I left it for maybe an hour, and when I came back to it a number of my apps had suddenly disappeared, without me doing anything.
The apps were Camera and a couple of other pre-installed apps.
Spotlight search wasn't giving any results.
I searched the Internet for similar problems, but the only reports I found were about devices on which Microsoft exchange accounts were set (= not my case) and problems with restrictions.
I went to the settings screen and checked: I had no restrictions set, all the apps were supposed to be on.
Just in case, I tried turning off the Camera app through the restrictions menu, and then immediately turning it back on again: the Camera app magically re-appeared, along with the other missing ones.
A few minutes later, I tried downloading a bunch of games I had previously purchased, namely Batman Arkham City and Modern Combat 3, and at the same time, my daugther asked me to download some kid's app of hers.
When I got back to the Home screen, only my daughter's app was appearing, but the download progress bar wasn't moving.
I supposed this was because the device was actually downloading the other two apps (Batman and Modern Combat), which are big downloads. But their icons were nowhere to be seen on the device. And again, spotlight search was giving me no results.
Searched the internet: again, "restrictions" came up as a potential culprit.
So I went to restrictions.
And again: all apps were marked as "allowed".
I thought the problem might be the same as with Camera, so I gave a shot at the same solution : applying restrictions to all apps but 4+, and immediately re-allowing everything back.
Went back to the Home screen, and... Everything was magically there!
Has anyone had the same problem here?
PS: by the way, I checked for potential settings inconsistencies between the iPod touch and the iPad: everything was fine. Both are running iOS 5.1, and the restrictions settings were perfectly identical.
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