Long time iOS users, can you help me?

[farlaff]

S.Peelman said:

farlaff said:

I just checked and both those games are still supported and appear on the App Store as downloadable options. Can you check for some games that are not supported anymore, if you have any, and see if they still appear on your account? Thanks in advance.

When I go to the list of purchased apps on my iPhone (in the in the account menu in the App store, icon/your AppleID avatar top right) and then 'All purchases", it seems to list everything; from the most recent thing up until my supposed very first app from 2008. Side-note, jeez you really needed apps for every standard thing back then, I mean I once downloaded an alarm clock app, and a flashlight app among lots of other basic stuff.

But anyway, next to all those is either "Open" for those that are currently on my iPhone, or an iCloud logo with a down arrow, for those that aren't. By far most are coloured and I can tap them and it goes to that app's page where I can download them, but indeed some, especially older ones, are greyed out, and I can't tap them (anymore). Or actually I can but it says "can't connect" when I do. So yeah it seems some old stuff is no longer available to download, or missing, but they're still named, dated and have their icon in this list at least. The newest thing that's greyed out for me is from 2013, while I can still download my second-to-oldest app, also from 2008. Still, I do remember I once had a public transport app and a ‘Darts’ game on my iPod Touch, which I can't seem to find in this list. And if those are missing, maybe more's missing. I don't know if either things older than 2008 aren't in this list, or that I maybe downloaded those pre-AppleID and it has something to do with how I backed-up and transferred those things to newer devices, or if it is missing because of something else..

In light of that Pajderman's suggestion of setting up a new phone from a safety copy seems worth investigating, if you still have the old iPad and it is still in working order, but I wouldn't know if that still works across such a big generational gap.

Thank you so much for going through the trouble of looking into this! I'll investigate further and keep you posted.