Argh – Apple iPhone ate my paid applications
I tried to sync my 1st Gen iPhone in the dock today. There was some error about it not being able to mount the iphone as a disk, which I OK’d and re-docked it so it synced again.
Now I find that all of my paid applications – Super Monkey Ball, Band, Enigmo, OmniFocus and Drum Kit have been removed from the phone. Any free applications I have installed over wifi over the weekend are all still there, as are all the other free apps. However every paid app is gone – for good. They are no longer listed in iTunes either.
So now I have to chase iTunes Store to reinstate these for me.
Nice bug guys.
2 Comments
Jason Rudolph
July 31, 2008Rumor has it (at least in the US iTunes Store) that you can re-download purchased apps. According to the latest episode of the MacCast …
http://www.maccast.com/2008/07/25/maccast-20080724/
… you simply find the app in the store, click “Buy”, and iTunes will recognize that you’ve already bought it and let you download it free of charge. (I haven’t tried it myself, so I can’t vouch for it personally.) Good luck!
Marc Palmer
July 31, 2008Yes Jason, this works – but it is very sucky. You have to go through your receipts to find everything you bought, and then hunt them all down in the store again.
So yes this is a good workaround, but its painful…