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Old 05-09-2016, 11:36
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I upgraded to a new iPhone on Friday and re-downloaded all the apps I had on my old one. There is an app that I have on my old iPhone which seems to no longer appear in the apple store.

How can I re-download this app that is no longer in the store? Can I get it from my iCloud storage?
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Old 05-09-2016, 11:41
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What's the app ?

If it's been pulled from the App Store then you're buggered.
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Old 05-09-2016, 12:19
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If you head over to the 'Updates' tab and click Purchased at the top it *may* be under there although by rights when you restored from an iCloud back up it should've carried over.
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Old 05-09-2016, 15:32
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If it's been pulled from the App Store then you're buggered.
Don't think so! You can, AFAIK, still backup Apps to a computer using iTunes. Doing this should enable the download of the app to a new phone.
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Old 05-09-2016, 16:22
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It should be in your iTunes backup, as BKM says.
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Old 05-09-2016, 16:42
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It should be in your iTunes backup, as BKM says.
However I was wrong!!! I just checked and is seems that, starting from IOS 9, iTunes can no longer extract apps!
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Old 05-09-2016, 16:42
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Only if you did a full backup via iTunes, not if you just have an iCloud backup
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Old 05-09-2016, 17:46
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If you head over to the 'Updates' tab and click Purchased at the top it *may* be under there although by rights when you restored from an iCloud back up it should've carried over.
Tried that just now and the app doesn't appear there.
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Old 05-09-2016, 18:02
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Don't think so! You can, AFAIK, still backup Apps to a computer using iTunes. Doing this should enable the download of the app to a new phone.
App Gratis was on the App Store until Apple pulled it. If you still had it on your phone it would still work as it should but if you deleted it or changed phones, you couldn't re-download it. That's why I said it would be a problem if the app had been pulled.
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Old 05-09-2016, 18:48
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However I was wrong!!! I just checked and is seems that, starting from IOS 9, iTunes can no longer extract apps!
I'm pretty sure I recently reinstalled TomTom Europe onto my old phone and it isn't in the AppStore anymore. I had backed up the apps from my 6s and then went into the Apps via iTunes and clicked install in iTunes onto the 5s...

I'll check in iTunes a bit later and report back.
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Old 05-09-2016, 22:17
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I think what's confusing is you don't "backup" apps when you sync iOS devices to iTunes.

You have to click File->Device->Transfer Purchases which will pull all purchases from the device to iTunes.

This is because Apple expect you to have "auto download" for apps turned on in iTunes, and to run it up a couple of times a month. They also don't expect apps to be pulled.
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Old 05-09-2016, 23:18
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I think what's confusing is you don't "backup" apps when you sync iOS devices to iTunes.

You have to click File->Device->Transfer Purchases which will pull all purchases from the device to iTunes.

This is because Apple expect you to have "auto download" for apps turned on in iTunes, and to run it up a couple of times a month. They also don't expect apps to be pulled.
I haven't had to do that, when I click sync (or backup?? I can't remember which) in iTunes a pop up box appears that says something like "you have purchases on your iPhone that are not in your library. Transfer first?"

I click yes and the apps are transferred over before the iPhone sync/backs up to the PC.
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