I have sometime seen, in answers here in the ASC, people suggest that a file or the iOS may have been corrupted and that is why an app or feature is behaving strangely. Frequently, uninstalling and reinstalling the app fixes the problem. Any idea what causes an app to get corrupted in the first place?
iPad Pro 9.7-inch WiFi, iOS 9.3.1
It depends on what the app does -
1. Picture containing apps may duplicate the photos some of which may remain after other images are transferred
2. Same thing can happen with notes or email
For example my text tones mysteriously stopped - and I had to completely restore to get them working again on my phone
At times restoring the backup brings back the issue (typical example restrictions password) - this is where the conclusion is that something in the content is causing it - and a factory like install of the iOS downloaded fresh from Apple servers would be needed to workaround the issue
It is a little bit vague but also dependent on the issue at hand - so please feel free to ask for clarifications if you need them
Of course some of my esteemed colleagues on the board may also chime in with their perspectives
Can "standard use" do it? Like, opening and closing apps, installing new apps without restarting? Maybe opening apps within apps like signing into Dropbox inside an app for backup purposes?
I think what I'm getting at is, can it be prevented? Or is that just the dangers of using technology?
The latter actually - I teach at the local university - I am so paranoid that I have 3 copies of my presentation always
On the Mac
On a flash drive
In the cloud
Just an offshoot of the kind of work I do for a living - I almost always tend to think in terms of backup or needed workarounds
So - in my humble opinion - it cannot be prevented - one just needs to anticipate and prepare
As project management teaches one -
There are known unknowns and then there are unknown unknowns - it is the latter that terrifies me metaphorically speaking
What causes an app or the iOS to become corrupted?
