alt Hacker NewsWhy would you remove an app if you want it to stay set up? iPhone has the "deleting an app will remove its data" thing for this reason.
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Sharlin • today at 8:18 AM
Ironically, removing many iPhone apps does not delete its data (as far as the user is concerned) because the data is actually in the cloud somewhere.
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Lots of possible reasons:
- You used a trial version of a software, or other time limited license, and want to keep the output from that around.
- You are upgrading and that particular app requires uninstalling the old version before installing the new version
- You run out of disk space and want to uninstall a game but don’t want to lose you’re progress
That’s just what immediately comes to mind but suffice to say any workflow will have legitimate counter examples.