How to Backup Jailbreak iPhone Apps?

by on January 3, 2010 in App Reviews, Free Apps, iPhone Tips, Jailbreak, Jailbreak apps

Yesterday, we looked at how to backup AppStore iPhone App settings.

How to Backup Jailbreak iPhone Apps?Now let’s say if you are going to do a factory reset on your iPhone. This is very common during firmware upgrades. And it is very painful to go about trying to find all the jailbreak apps you had found and installed over time.

So, how can you backup all your jailbreak iPhone apps and settings?

You can backup a list of all the jailbreak apps you have with Aptback (a jailbreak app) and use it to restore it later.

How to Backup Jailbreak Apps?

  • Go to Cydia and install Aptbackup
  • Launch AptBackup and hit Backup to create a list of all jailbreak apps installed
  • Sync the iPhone with iTunes so the list gets synced to iTunes
  • When you need to restore, just launch Aptbackup and hit restore
  • It will reinstall all the Cydia apps you had previously installed

Unlike AppBackup, which restores all your AppStore Apps Settings, AptBackup does not restore your jailbreak app settings. It just makes it easy to reinstall all the apps you had installed earlier.


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    • copeling

      Any ideas on what to do when the computer (mac) that the iphone was synched to has been reformatted? technically, even though the iphone was paired to this computer, it doesn’t recognize it as such in iTunes… Any help here?

    • noli

      can you help me figure out how to transfer games and applications of iphone to a new laptop? Im using iphone 3gs and installed iteunes 9.2 on the new laptop. I didnt have a pc before,i just ask some friends to use my iphone to their pc…thanks.

    • http://www.topiphoneresource.info karthik

      I think this should work.

      Connect your iPhone to your new iTunes.
      Right click on the iPhone and select backup.
      Then Sync.
      iTunes will ask that this might erase data on your iPhone. Say ok.
      If it did delete data from iPhone, you can restore from the initial backup you did.

      I am writing this from memory since I am not at a computer. So, if something goes wrong please don’t quote me . :-)

    • Frank

      right click on top of iphone in itunes and go to transfer purchases