Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I am currently coding a backup app for iOS, and I want to have options to let the user back up things like Application Data (other app’s documents, etc,) Contacts, Safari Bookmarks, and all that fun stuff.
I’d like to know if that’s possible, how I’d do it, and where those files are stored, and most importantly, if this is actually allowed by Apple. I read through their docs, and I haven’t seen anything that speaks against it.
It’s not possible. Your app isn’t even capable of reading the documents from other apps. This is accomplished via sandboxing. Every read/write your application tries to do to the filesystem is checked by the kernel to ensure you’re staying within your sandbox. The documents belonging to other apps are outside of your sandbox, so you cannot see them.