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  • Re: Steve's document is crap if it doesn't cover the fundamentaldifference between iOS & Android app backup & restore

    From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.mobile.ipad on Sat Nov 4 21:43:21 2023
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    On 2023-11-04, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

    There used to be a way to save the .ipa file for iOS and reinstall the program, but to my knowledge that could only be done in iTunes.

    It can still be done with Apple Configurator, iMazing, and other
    utilities. I have archives of every version of every app ever installed
    on any of my iOS devices going back to 2008.
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  • From candycanearter07@no@thanks.net to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.mobile.ipad on Sat Nov 4 17:31:41 2023
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    On 11/4/23 16:43, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2023-11-04, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

    There used to be a way to save the .ipa file for iOS and reinstall the
    program, but to my knowledge that could only be done in iTunes.

    It can still be done with Apple Configurator, iMazing, and other
    utilities. I have archives of every version of every app ever installed
    on any of my iOS devices going back to 2008.


    But iOS doesn't let you run any version not made for the specific iOS
    release.
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  • From Jolly Roger@jollyroger@pobox.com to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.mobile.ipad on Sun Nov 5 00:48:45 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.apps

    On 2023-11-04, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    On 11/4/23 16:43, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2023-11-04, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

    There used to be a way to save the .ipa file for iOS and reinstall
    the program, but to my knowledge that could only be done in iTunes.

    It can still be done with Apple Configurator, iMazing, and other
    utilities. I have archives of every version of every app ever
    installed on any of my iOS devices going back to 2008.

    But iOS doesn't let you run any version not made for the specific iOS release.

    No, *app developers* are in full control over which versions of their
    apps run on which versions of iOS. Apple's not going around preventing
    apps from running. For instance, Settlers of Catan Classic was released
    for iOS 14 years ago and still works fine today on any device running
    iOS 8.0 or later. Apple hasn't prevented it from running on the latest
    OS versions, and the developers have decided it's worth the effort to
    continue supporting it on older devices.
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