Let’s comply with up with a reader about my latest column on troubleshooting apps in your cellphone.
I took everybody by way of the troubleshooting steps, finally ending up uninstalling the app and downloading it once more from the app retailer for a recent set up.
At this time a reader asks, “Your column as we speak was useful because it confirmed the steps in diagnosing the issue. I do know I shall be utilizing that course of sooner or later, nevertheless it brings up for me a standard query.
“If I get to the purpose of getting to delete and reinstall the app, (iPad/iPhone) I delete the app after which go to the App Retailer. After I request a obtain of the app, I get an icon that seems to point out that the reload is coming from a cloud. Does that imply it’s coming from iCloud? Does that imply that I get probably the most up-to-date model of the app? By no means have understood this.”
It is a nice query, and one I ought to have anticipated.
When you uninstall an app, you go to the app retailer and seek for it, however as an alternative of a small button labeled “Get” you’ll see a small icon of a cloud with an arrow pointing downward.
I can see the place this might trigger some individuals to suppose they’re getting the app from iCloud, however what it actually means is you’ve already bought/downloaded that app and also you’re entitled to obtain it once more. It’s merely a special icon to point out that you just’ve downloaded it earlier than.
You aren’t getting it from an iCloud backup, you’ll be getting a recent copy from the App retailer.
The recent copy will even be the most recent model, even when you by no means up to date the app whereas it was in your cellphone.
I provides you with a warning, as a result of this occurred to me.
Apps won’t be within the app retailer ceaselessly. If an organization stops providing the app, and it’s not suitable with the present working system, apps can go away, even when you paid for them.
I used to play the EA Sports activities Tiger Woods golf recreation on my iPad. It was a recreation I bought and loved for years.
Someday after I made a decision to wipe and reinstall the working system on my iPad, I went to the app retailer to get new copies of my apps, and I found EA Sports activities had pulled the Tiger Woods recreation and I may not set up or play it.
I’m nonetheless miffed about shedding the sport, however there isn’t something I can do about it.
Jim Rossman is a tech columnist for Tribune Information Service. He could also be reached at jrossmantechadviser@gmail.com.
