Dear Buyer's Remorse, It really sucks when that happens. Sometimes even some of our favorite apps wind up vanishing from Google Play or the iTunes App Store because the company or developer behind them is acquired by a bigger company, just doesn't want to maintain the app anymore, or somehow runs afoul of Apple or Google and gets their app yanked.
Unfortunately, it's just a fact of life—one we have to get used to. However, that doesn't mean you don't have options. Let's talk about how you can make sure you at least get what you paid for.
Backing up your apps in Android is pretty simple, so even if an app you've paid for and downloaded is pulled from Google Play, you can still grab it from your phone and install it on any future phones you may own. You obviously won't get bug fixes or updates since the app is now dead, so there's no guarantee that the app will work forever, but at least you'll always have the version you own available to you.
How to transfer old Android apps into a new phone New, 4 comments. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Got it? Open the app, accept its terms, and grant it permission to access files on your device. Find the app you want to save and tap the three-dot menu icon beside it. APK Extractor Pro will need permission to access your files. Find the file you want to transfer, and share it.
Grid View. On the new phone, download your sunsetted app in this case, Inbox from Google Drive. Disabling auto-updates in the Play Store. This may look slightly different depending on which UI you have for the Play Store. That setting can be changed on a per-app basis in the Play Store by tapping the three-dot overflow menu at the top right of a given app listing and unchecking "Enable auto update.
If you're rolling back because of a problem, make sure you reach out to the developer with a report regarding your issue, and check back in regularly to see if it's been fixed, that way you don't stay stuck on the old version of an app for too long. And that's all there is to it. You should be rolled back onto whatever version you need for a given app.
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Should Apple have another function that goes one step further to alert you to those apps that have been removed from the App Store? The most recent major purge of iOS apps was ahead of the introduction of iOS Last year, developers had to scramble to update their bit apps to a bit version in order to be compatible with iOS So if you had a bit app still installed on your phone, it would fail to launch and you would receive an error message saying the developer needs to update their app.
Before that, Apple did a number of major purges in as part of an effort to remove problematic or abandoned apps. Research from Sensor Tower shows that in October, around 47, apps were removed as part of this effort, around 3.
If Apple deems them unworthy for the store then surely users should really be questioning their value on their devices. Unless they have good reason to keep them. To get started, you need to allow installation of apps from external sources on your sources.
The next step is to get the APK file of the older app version you want to install. The most popular and reliable source of this is APKMirror website. Almost done.
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