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looking for an app that lists all my apps?
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No idea.
You could back up your iphone either into the cloud or with iTunes.
And when your new phone arrives, restore from that backup.
This will save everything, even messages etc.
You could back up your iphone either into the cloud or with iTunes.
And when your new phone arrives, restore from that backup.
This will save everything, even messages etc.
Not sure that there is an iOS API to allow Apps to get this kind of information, kind of a breach in privacy.
Ive have restored from a backup half a dozen times, it does not restore apps, at least not from my pc. I posted a thread about this and the answer given was that. Restore from backup only restores contacts and pictures
Are you sure you're using the correct back up? Also, using an app to tell you what Apps you have seems needless convoluted, I just use my eyes, look at iTunes, or look in the apps folder. Looking is crazy, I know, but try it out sometime.
when you back up to icloud it 100% backs up apps and everything on the phone. You could get a new phone and it would look identical in every way to the old one.
Both my children have ipods, so looking at itunes is cluttered with their apps also, i will try the icloud method
But don't your eyes see, for instance, every single fart app you've ever downloaded, and not just the very special one that you've chosen to keep on your phone?
Regards,
Tom
Make sure you hav e it all selected in your icloud backup and it wil. The backup file itself does not contain the apps themselves but the information on which ones are loaded. Once the backup is loaded the phone will start re-downloading all the apps.
You have to select "back up my apps" or something like that in the options when you're syncing your iphone. It's not selected by default. I've loaded all the apps from my iPhone 4 onto my iPhone 4S before though my windows PC.
When you connect your iPhone to iTunes make sure in the Apps tab in the middle has the "automatically sync new apps" checked. That might be your problem if it's not checked. Since you sync other Apple devices, just uncheck the apps that you don't want on your iPhone so you won't also install your children's apps. When I did a restore and backup months ago iTunes restored all my apps and placed them exactly where I had them.
My guess is that you accidentally turned something off which is causing your problem. If you can't figure out what it was then an alternative to making a list of your apps is to take pictures of your iPhone screen. You can do this by pressing the top power button and the home button at the same time to take a picture of your screen. Take a picture of all your app pages and opened folders and you will have a photo copy of all your apps. I think this is better than making a list because you will know exactly where you placed all your apps. Just make sure to transfer the pictures onto your computer also in case your iTunes for some reason doesn't backup your images.
thanks for the suggestions, I was referring to my previous post where I was told that I could not restore my apps
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1431516/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1431516/