The other day we were talking about how Apple had decided that when a developer removed their application from the App Store it would also be removed from our purchase history and that would prevent us from being able to download it if we needed it. The only alternative we had left was to transfer those applications from our iPhone or iPad to iTunes, with the classic option "Transfer purchases" that we can find within the main menu of the application for Mac and Windows. However in iOS 9 this function does not work as it should. Although the option still appears in the iTunes menu, it turns out that it does nothing. The Apple forums and other websites are full of users reporting this problem, and it has an official explanation from the company.
The explanation does not give much hope to those of us who used this option to make a backup copy of our applications in iTunes in order to restore those applications much faster, without having to resort to downloading them again from the App Store. And it seems that due to the new "Thinning App" of iOS 9, it is impossible that applications can be transferred to iTunes. Why is this happening? In iOS 9, when you download an application on your iPhone, only those necessary components are downloaded so they work on your device. Before this, in iOS 8 and earlier, you always downloaded the full application. As "global" applications are no longer downloaded in iOS 9, Apple has decided not to allow them to be transferred to iTunes, because an application installed on an iPhone could not be used for an iPad.
Moment we do not know if it is a temporary situation until they find a solution to the problem that arises. The fact that the menu keeps popping up may give us a little hope that Apple is looking for a solution. We will keep you informed.
They don't stop screwing up, you don't want to update, the captain told me that photo only comes in English, for them.
Photos is in perfect Spanish in El Capitan, whoever told you would have the language wrongly configured.
I was already going crazy, thanks brother! excellent article
And if you have 320 applications that together are more than 60 GB in applications and it occurs to you to perform a clean installation or change the iPhone, what do you do? You lose 60 GB with your super 10 Mbps internet connection? or what applies in that case
Do the test and you will see that the iPhone apps are not transferred to iTunes. With iOS 8 they passed perfectly. If I then try to transfer them from iTunes to the iPhone, many of the applications are not copied to the device. I did the test the other day by uploading from 8.4 to iOS 9.0.2.
I thought it was a problem with my devices and even iTunes thanks!
what a fool they have done, it was driving me crazy too!
HDPA….
The easiest solution would be to have the apps updated on the mac, and thus only save the data of the applications in the backup copies, but it is more cumbersome
Thanks man… I was already thinking that my iPhone had a problem and another expense of money?
Barbarian!!! I had restored my iPhone and there was no way to get my apps back, I thought it was the cable, then the copy is wrong, it was iTunes, well, I thought a million different things and it was only because of fault from Apple .. Thanks for the note! it really solved a question for me.