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Do universal apps import data from iPhone?

Mad Mac Maniac

Mad Mac Maniac

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I'm excited about getting my first iPad this Friday!!!

But I'm wondering... I have a lot of universal apps on my iPhone. Will all the data that I have automatically sync to my iPad?

I'm playing Infinity Blade and I wanted to make sure then I can pull it up on my iPad and continue right where I left off! I would assume that in order to keep the two devices up to date with each other I would need to sync them together through iTunes, which would get really annoying if I want to use my iPad while at home, and my iPhone while I'm out...

I hope iOS 5 (or mobileme) incorporates a system wide method of keeping your iphone and ipad apps in sync wirelessly :)
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
even when I sync through iTunes?
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iTunes only syncs media (video, music, podcasts, etc). App data don't sync. Some devs have built ways for their apps to sync data with other devices, but I don't think Infinity Blades is one of them.

You could restore your iPhone backup to your iPad, and start off from there. But your iPhone and iPad would diverge from each other after that point.
 
Night Spring said:
iTunes only syncs media (video, music, podcasts, etc). App data don't sync. Some devs have built ways for their apps to sync data with other devices, but I don't think Infinity Blades is one of them.
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That's not completely true. iTunes does sync app data when it backs up. If you restore your iPad from your iPad backup all your app data is moved to the restored device. Unfortunately you can't sync your app data to a different iOS device you own.
 
Night Spring said:
You could restore your iPhone backup to your iPad, and start off from there. But your iPhone and iPad would diverge from each other after that point.
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Would doing this possibly have any adverse effects on my iPad, iPhone, apps, or anything? From then on the iPad would create it's own backup and the iPhone would still have it's own? I just wanna make sure it wouldn't cause the two devices to step over each other in some weird way...

I assume doing this would load ALL my iPhone apps onto my iPad and then I would have to manually remove ALL the iPhone only apps and then add all the iPad apps (that I have already downloaded in iTunes ready to install!)
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
Would doing this possibly have any adverse effects on my iPad, iPhone, apps, or anything? From then on the iPad would create it's own backup and the iPhone would still have it's own? I just wanna make sure it wouldn't cause the two devices to step over each other in some weird way...

I assume doing this would load ALL my iPhone apps onto my iPad and then I would have to manually remove ALL the iPhone only apps and then add all the iPad apps (that I have already downloaded in iTunes ready to install!)
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After the first setup, each device would do its own thing. No weird stepping over each other.

Yes, I suppose if you restore your iPad from an iPhone backup, all iPhone apps would load onto the iPad. But you can sort the apps by kind (iPhone, iPad, Universal) in the iTunes app tab, so it shouldn't be that hard to unselect all of your iPhone apps to delete them off the iPad.
 
The game developers also have the ability to make save files transferable in iTunes (outside of doing the whole save file cloud-transfer method). For instance, the adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky uses this method, allowing the user to use iTunes to copy off their save file, and can use it to transfer that save file to another device.
 
I was going to ask about this on here and my worst fear has come true. Well this is really depressing. I've done so much on Infinity Blade on the iPhone :( I guess it'll be a fun challenge to go back through and do it all over again...
 
ghayenga said:
Apple can't fix it because it's not broken. That's not something Apple should do.

The game designer should implement that functionality, and some do.
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Well lets not be picky with terminology. Just as many people say that Apple needs to "fix" notifications or "fix" xyz. The notifications aren't exactly broken, they just suck and need to be improved.

And which is easier to do, force every developer to come up with their own individual method of syncing info. Or create a universal system that is either automatic, or something simple that the dev can just opt in to. For example gamecenter is a universal system that the dev can opt in to then your scores are automaticallys saved, synced etc.

meder87 said:
I was going to ask about this on here and my worst fear has come true. Well this is really depressing. I've done so much on Infinity Blade on the iPhone :( I guess it'll be a fun challenge to go back through and do it all over again...
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Or you can restore using your iphone back-up. That's probably what I will do.
 
Night Spring said:
After the first setup, each device would do its own thing. No weird stepping over each other.

Yes, I suppose if you restore your iPad from an iPhone backup, all iPhone apps would load onto the iPad. But you can sort the apps by kind (iPhone, iPad, Universal) in the iTunes app tab, so it shouldn't be that hard to unselect all of your iPhone apps to delete them off the iPad.
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Oh, I just realized something. my iPhone 4 has about 22GB of data on it, but I am only planning on purchasing a 16GB iPad... issues with restoring from that backup?
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
Oh, I just realized something. my iPhone 4 has about 22GB of data on it, but I am only planning on purchasing a 16GB iPad... issues with restoring from that backup?
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only the "other" data gets backed-up and transferred to your other device, not the entire 22gb (unless you have 22GB of other).
 
backup from iPhone...

well maybe I won't do backup my new ipad from my iphone data.

I was just searching through my universal apps and it seeems all of them have a log in that I can do except for Infinity Blade (well maybe 2do, but it has a sync function that I think should allow what I want)

I don't think I want to go through all the effort just to save my infinity blade data. Also, now I'm a bit worried that it might make my iPad run slower. Because I know everyone on here always raves about restoring as new to make their iDevices "snappier"...
 
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