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System Restore for IPad (1 Viewer)
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CalvinFold
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I was under the assumption that in the Apple Walled Garden, all upgrades are one-way, no going back.
For cloud-based services (Words with Friends, Pokémon Go, Netflix), often you can be locked-out of the app until you upgrade, so they become effectively mandatory.
For cloud-based services (Words with Friends, Pokémon Go, Netflix), often you can be locked-out of the app until you upgrade, so they become effectively mandatory.
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CalvinFold
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Yeah, it really is not fun when they change it and the experience gets worse, or buggy. I've been effectively locked-out of cloud-based apps by a buggy upgrade and had to wait until they upgraded again with the bugfixes. |
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kitefarrago
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I'm a bit confused - are you talking about going back to an earlier version of an app, or to an earlier version of the operating system?
The latter may be impossible unless you have a back-up saved specially. Apple does indeed make that impossible in the sense that after a certain date you can't get a copy of that version of the operating system.
Andrea
The latter may be impossible unless you have a back-up saved specially. Apple does indeed make that impossible in the sense that after a certain date you can't get a copy of that version of the operating system.
Andrea
Pinewood
New York correspondent
Hello KC,
I am happy to read that you have survived the prolonged disastrous weather in the Carolinas.
If you have an old backup, on a computer or in the cloud, you could restore the original settings and use the backup to return to your favorite apps. However, you might not be able to add apps which have updated for the new IOS. Eventually, your iPad may be obsolete.
At least, I think that is what you can do.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur
I am happy to read that you have survived the prolonged disastrous weather in the Carolinas.
If you have an old backup, on a computer or in the cloud, you could restore the original settings and use the backup to return to your favorite apps. However, you might not be able to add apps which have updated for the new IOS. Eventually, your iPad may be obsolete.
At least, I think that is what you can do.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur
Pinewood
New York correspondent
Hello KC,
One of the ten commandments of computing should be "Back Up!"
Happy bird watching,
Arthur
CalvinFold
Well-known member
Yeah, except mobile computing kinda changed that dynamic, as did desktop browsers.
As you pointed out, a "backup" is only useful to a point if it also relies on a master cloud. So your backup may have taken place when you had Version 10.4 of Birds with Friends, but if the current version in the cloud/store is 10.6 when you restore the backup, that version gets pulled (with exceptions for your version of the operating system, in some cases).
It's more of a crap shoot than I'd prefer, but such seems to be the way of mobile computing (and auto-updating desktop browsers). At least my desktop computer is backed-up regularly and I never auto-update the operating system.
"Desktop computing" is slowly becoming an anachronism, so the future aught to be interesting...
Pinewood
New York correspondent
Hello Calvin,
I do not have a smart 'phone but I do have both an iPod Touch and an iPad, which I regularly backup to a home computer, which in turn is backed up monthly to Time Machine. Some items, bank payments, personal business correspondence and some photos, do go right to the cloud,
I am an OAP who sees little point of being always connected.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:
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