How To See App Download History

In the seven years I’ve been using an iPhone, I’ve downloaded hundreds of apps. I’ve deleted the vast majority of them off my iPhone, but iOS has kept a record. There’s a way to see every app you’ve ever downloaded and re-download them. Here’s how.

Open the App Store and tap the Profile icon in the top right then select Purchased.

See your purchase history in the App Store or iTunes Store View a list of the apps, songs, movies, TV shows, books, or other items that you bought with your Apple ID. After you buy content from the App Store, iTunes Store, or make other digital purchases with your Apple ID, you can redownload your purchases on any compatible device.

  • Jun 20, 2018 - Hiding a purchased or downloaded app does not delete it from the. Read on below to see how to both hide an iOS app and unhide an. The Apple ID must be the same, regardless, to have purchase history for that account.
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Now you’ll see a list of every app you’ve ever downloaded. You can filter it by All apps or just the ones Not on This iPhone.

To re-download any app, tap the Cloud icon next to it. If you want to remove any app from the list, swipe it to the left and tap Hide.

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If you’ve updated to iOS 11, you won’t be able to download any old 32-bit apps. A lot of games from the early days of iOS are no longer supported.

Surprisingly, though, I was able to successfully download the app Vidyo that was pulled from the App Store by Apple. I was also able to download an older app that was removed by the developer. Your mileage may vary with apps like this, but it’s worth a shot if you’re trying to find something that’s been pulled from the store.

You are likely aware that both Google and Apple (through its devices' hardware and software), keep track of your location in order to provide you with an ever-increasing variety of location-aware services. These include of course maps, custom routes, directions, and search, but they also include Facebook, review services such as Yelp, fitness apps, store brand apps, and more.

However, not many people know that the location awareness of their portable devices and software extends to tracking and recording their location history, as well. In the case of Google, if you opt-in to 'Places You've Been' in your account settings, your location history consists of a detailed and searchable, long-duration data file complete with a visible trail, organized by date and time. Apple provides you with much less information but does keep, and display at your request a record of your recently visited places, without the detailed trail feature that Google offers.

Both Google and Apple provide these history files with plenty of assurances about privacy, and you may opt out of them completely, or, in the case of Google, even erase your entire location history.

They are both useful services that could help you as long as you're aware of them have them opted into your comfort level. In some situations, location history could play an important role in legal or rescue situations.

Google Location History How-To

To see your location history in Google Maps, you must be logged into your master Google account, and you need to have been logged into your Google account on your smartphone or your laptop as you moved about locally or traveled in the past.

After you are logged in to Google, go to www.google.com/maps/timeline on a desktop or laptop web browser or via your smartphone, and you will be presented with a map-enabled search utility. In the location history control panel on the left, you may select date segments to see, in one through seven-day increments, or up to 14 or 30-day increments.

After you select your date segments and ranges, you are shown your location and a travel trail of your positions for the time period. These tracks are zoomable and you can get a detailed history of your travels. You may also 'delete history from this time period,' or delete your entire history from the database. This is part of Google's effort to offer both transparency and user control when it comes to private location data.

History Of Apps Downloaded

Apple iOS & iPhone Location History How-To

How To See App Download History

Apple provides you with much less location history data and less detail. However, you can see some history. Here's how you find your information:

  1. Go to the Settings icon on your iPhone.

  2. Scroll down and tap on Privacy.

  3. Tap on Location Services and scroll all the way to the bottom.

  4. Scroll all the way down to Significant Locations, or Frequent Locations if you don't have the latest iOS. You can turn this feature off with the toggle button at the top of the Significant Locations screen.

  5. You'll find your location history at the bottom, with location names and dates.

Iphone App Install History

Apple stores a limited number of locations and does not provide precise travel tracks and timelines like Google. It provides location and date and an approximate position circle on a non-interactive (you can't pinch-to-zoom it) map.

How To See App Download History On Iphone

Like so much technology today, location history can be harmful or helpful, depending on who is using it and how, and whether you understand and control it, and whether you opt in to what you want to have tracked (and opt out of what you don't want). Learning about location history on your device and how to view and control it is the first step.

As a side note, now that you know where you've been, do you know where your car is? If not, Google Maps will help you find it.