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now i see it

macrumors G4
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Jan 2, 2002
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Today I noticed that two of my apps are gone. Numbers (that had a lot of data/spreadsheets not in icloud -damn!) and Cyclemeter (data in iCloud- whew!)

I never deleted these apps and they were on my phone yesterday. Nobody used my phone.

Has anyone experienced this before? Apps disappearing?

I redownloaded both Numbers & Cyclemeter from the App Store (Numbers data is gone).

I definitely don't want to wipe & restore my whole phone because of a lost app.
I guess from now in I'll be saving my Numbers spreadsheets in iCloud.
Disappearing apps blows. Big time.
Saving important data in the app is a bad practice (I just learned). If the app disappears - bye bye data.

In the past I used to have restrictions enabled to disallow deleting apps (for a safety net for this exact reason) yet that restriction was off this time. Damn!
 
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