{"id":2678,"date":"2016-02-22T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-02-22\/2678"},"modified":"2016-02-22T11:49:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:49:30","slug":"the-fix-for-missing-apps-after-an-iphone-restore-from-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-02-22\/2678","title":{"rendered":"The Fix for Missing Apps After an iPhone Restore from Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>Another issue I discovered with my iPhone today, besides the problem of it\n<a href='\/blog\/2016-02-22\/2677'>not alerting to <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> watchOS\nversion<\/a>, is that restoring an iPhone from <span class='nobr'>a backup<\/span> with iTunes requires <span class='nobr'>a\nlot<\/span> of temporary disk space, and if you don't have enough, the restore\noperation will partially fail, silently leaving the phone with some apps (and\ntheir data) missing.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you notice, as I did today because most of my apps were missing, you can\nclear out disk space and re-run the restore.<\/p>\n\n<p>The first time I encountered this kind of problem was <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> months ago when\nrestoring Anthony's phone. <span class='nobr'>At the time<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I didn't<\/span> know what caused the apps to go\nmissing, and he was crushed to lose almost all his data.<\/p>\n\n<p>At least now I know how to prevent it in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another issue I discovered with my iPhone today, besides the problem of it not alerting to a new watchOS version, is that restoring an iPhone from a backup with iTunes requires a lot of temporary disk space, and if you don't have enough, the restore operation will partially fail, silently leaving the phone with some apps (and their data) missing.<\/p> <p>If you notice, as I did today because most of my apps were missing, you can clear out disk space and re-run the restore.<\/p> <p>The first time I encountered this kind of problem was a few months ago when restoring [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}