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Title: Why 'Transfer Purchases' doesn't copy apps to iTunes when backing up your iPhone Post by: HCK on September 30, 2016, 04:05:13 pm Why 'Transfer Purchases' doesn't copy apps to iTunes when backing up your iPhone
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Last week we talked about creating a backup of your iOS device (http://www.macworld.com/article/3122446/iphone-ipad/the-nuances-of-iphone-backups.html) that, when restored, would also restore all your apps. As I noted in the article, an iCloud backup restores apps and their related data, and restoring using an iTunes backup does, but maybe not the way you expect it to.</p><p> Shortly after the article posted, Sandeep Roy sent me a message via Twitter and posted a comment asking about an apparent footnote at the end of the Apple support article I referenced (https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201267) stating that, as of iOS 9, there were changes to iTunes’ Transfer Purchases option that no longer allowed you to transfer app purchases. He asked if I would check it out. The footnote, which Apple Support on Twitter hadn’t told me about and which I hadn’t read when I read the support article, stated the following:</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3125509/iphone-ipad/more-on-backing-up-your-ios-device.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Why 'Transfer Purchases' doesn't copy apps to iTunes when backing up your iPhone (http://www.macworld.com/article/3125509/iphone-ipad/more-on-backing-up-your-ios-device.html#tk.rss_all) |