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Re:Apple WWDC20 by ladberg on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:46AM (#23507385)
What apps do they not let owners reinstall? I got iDOS on my iPhone during a brief stint on the App Store and was able to redownload it on all my new devices until they dropped 32 bit support.

It was a pretty cool party trick to run Windows 95 on my phone without jailbreaking it, and it seems like that's exactly the kind of app they would remove permanently. Additionally, I could use the DOS prompt to poke around the system files (though it was read-only).

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Re:Apple WWDC20 by aspenmayer on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:32PM (#23568880)
That’s a great question. I believe that apps which have been deleted from the App Store by the developer cannot be reinstalled through the Purchased tab in App Store. I’m looking for specific examples, but so far all I’ve seen which aren’t reinstallable in App Store are either 32-bit as you mentioned or removed by the developer.
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