Re: phone migration

Jolly Roger wrote on 19 Jul 2024 18:54:26 GMT :

You can still install apps that are no longer on the App Store with
third-party tools like iMazing.

 "You have to have backed up the app using iMazing *before*
  it disappears from the App Store"
 <https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/59797/questions-if-an-ipa-backup-file-can-help-with-installing-apps-that-aren-t-available-in-the-app-store>

If you are willing to canvass your friends, you can find one of them with
the older app already backed up and you can beg them for their old IPA.

Sadly, this is what it means to own a device designed as a dumb terminal.

No other operating system (other than from Apple) requires you to back up
your installers given all other operating system automatically save them.

Only iOS has such an atrociously primitive IPA backup/restore methodology
(which, after all, is based on the dumb-terminal design of iOS overall).

REFERENCES in the sig (where zealots don't need reference because
they simply make everything up and they hope nobody notices).
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https://www.lifewire.com/install-apps-removed-from-app-store-2000636
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250969787?sortBy=best
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/59797/questions-if-an-ipa-backup-file-can-help-with-installing-apps-that-aren-t-available-in-the-app-store
https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-manage-apps-without-itunes
https://imazing.com/guides/how-to-export-backup-and-transfer-ios-apps-data-and-settings
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/419962/how-do-i-get-an-app-from-my-old-phone-onto-a-new-phone-without-updating-the-app