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do player preferences get deleted if an iphone app is updated
I have an iphone app I'm developing that will store player preferences for how many coins they have purchased and which items they have bought. If at a later time I want to update the app what will happen to the player preferences.
What if someone deletes the app and then wants to re-install it from itunes. How would the playerpreferences be backed up and restored?
Answer by GameVortex · Dec 10, 2013 at 09:38 AM
I am pretty sure that the player preferences are not lost if the app is updated, but you have to assume that all associated files for an app is removed/deleted when the app is uninstalled.
You have a log of what the players has bought through the appstore and can restore those purchases in the app if you include that functionality. But you will not have any info of what consumable things (like coins) have been used up by the user, so consumables are usually never restored after an uninstall and the player should be notified of this through the app itself.
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