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All my Apps have disappeared overnight ?????

I have enjoyed my iPhone 3G since I have had it. No major issues the phone works well and has always sync'd ok.

I picked my phone from its charging base this morning, not connected to a computer. Entered my password as I always do.

All the installed applications on my phone. That I last used the following night. Have disappeared.

I am now trying to "restore" my iphone but it is also having problems.

I have to say the last version of iTunes also seems to more generally be creating problems like downloading my podcasts, again, so I have duplicate copies.

Has anyone else lost applications when there iphone has not been anywhere need a computer???

Thanks,

John

Iphone 3GS, iOS 4, itunes

Posted on Jul 27, 2010 5:20 AM

19 replies

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Sep 30, 2010 12:53 PM in response to Daveed84

This has happened to me many times, and now also om my wifes iPhone. We have both iOS 4.01. Apps usuallu come back on the springboard after a while, but all the 3. party icons are white. Are anybody else that have these problems using the app called PingChat?

Sep 30, 2010 9:46 PM in response to AKRBTN

AKRBTN, you have made my point: the space for the apps is not showing. That's exactly the problem. They're gone. Poof. Every time. Storage space deallocated. Despite the fact that, yes, data corruption occurs very often in the world of computers, it is not the issue at play here.

Dec 13, 2010 3:26 AM in response to Tamara

I wish people wouldn't say idiotic things like "add the apps back one at a time until the problem reappears". I'm suffering this problem now - for no reason at all, my iPhone 4 has suddenly decided to denote all apps as "Other" rather than "Applications" and delete all their icons. There seems no way back, as before I noticed what it had done it made a backup in this broken state, and there are no other backups stored in iTunes I could restore from. I'm almost certainly going to have to restore to factory settings and rebuild everything from scratch.

My iPhone 4 is a 32GB model. That means that Apple in their wisdom have given it the capacity to hold perhaps 4000 apps. I had a lot of music and video on mine, which meant that there were a "mere" 800 or so. Anyone suggesting that I reinstall 800 apps one by one and test the phone for some unspecified period each time to see which one might possibly be causing problems (because the iPhone was working fine and crashed from the Home screen, not from within an app, so I'm not sure how long you'd have to give each one before determining that it wasn't the root of the issue) is going to be told to take a very long walk off a very short pier, and not in particularly convivial language.

This problem is Apple's fault, nobody else's. If you've got nothing constructive to say about how people might be able to fix it without wasting days of their lives at a stretch (with no guarantee that it won't just randomly happen again), shut the **** up.

Dec 13, 2010 3:49 AM in response to John O'Callaghan-Williams

I left my 3Gs charging off the PC yesterday and after an hour I unlocked my phone and all the apps were gone.

I looked in iTunes and they were all gone from iTunes too. Is this a different problem from what the guys on this posting have reported?

For more details on my flavour of the problem, please see here...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2680813&tstart=0

All my Apps have disappeared overnight ?????