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The photo vault app for iPhone is no longer available on the App Store . Therefore you can’t get into it or update it. I had photos only saved in there and not backed up anywhere else.
How can I get them back?
Are they backed up? If they are get a program such as backup extractor or similar program for your computer and see if you can remove them from the backup of that app.
Are they backed up? If they are get a program such as backup extractor or similar program for your computer and see if you can remove them from the backup of that app.
Backed up in what sense?
The photos were only saved in the vault, because that was the point of it, keeping them safe.
I have phone back ups that include the app, but as it’s now gone I doubt that means much
If a developer abandons their app, there’s nothing really you can do. In the future, never trust any data you value to a single source for storage. Always make sure you have some independent backup of that data (export the images to an encrypted folder on your laptop or desktop, or somewhere like Dropbox or Google Photos).
The reality of software licensing is that EULA‘s allows a developer to walk away from their software whenever they chose to. So while using something like Photovault may be fine, just make sure you have your data itself backed up somewhere independent of that app. That goes for any proprietary encrypted storage, like password managers (many of which do offer the ability to export the database as CSU text, which can again be saved in an encrypted folder somewhere).
The backup I was referring to is your iPhone backup. Data from apps is stored in that backup so with the software I referred to you may be able to get your photos. You are late to the game, there were a lot of these posts about a year ago and many were able to retrieve data in the manner I described.
Right, great I will try that and see if it works.
I did do a search of the articles and there wasn’t much on this issue to be honest and nothing regarding that specific app.
But thanks for both your help on it
Photo Vault App Removed. How to get my photos?
