Without an account, everything only lives on this device — a backup brings your state to a new device, and device sync (Plus) automatically keeps several of your own devices in the same state.
Without an account, everything only lives on this device — a backup brings your state to a new device.
Creating a backup
Under Settings → Data & Privacy → "Backup", "↓ Back up" packs all of this device's profiles into a single file — pieces, plans, results, sounds, everything.
Saving in the iPhone or iPad app
In the current app, a file picker opens for saving. Choose a folder and confirm the save. Only then is your backup stored there. “Cancel” leaves your data unchanged and returns you to the app. From app version 1.0.6, the “Last backup” line in Data & Privacy also stays unchanged: it only lists a backup once you have saved it. If the JSON file content appears instead, update the app. If an export error appears, try again. Only delete your data once you can find the backup file in Files.
Your data:
Word for word under the backup: "The file also contains your access data (e.g. class connection) — keep it safe." So sharing the file means sharing more than just practice results.
Restoring on the new device
"↑ Restore" opens that same backup file on the new device. Before applying it, a dialog shows honest numbers — how many entries, how many pieces, from which backup and date — and afterwards replaces everything on this device. It doesn't automatically bring back a device sync you'd set up, either — the device identity never travels along with the backup file, so you simply pair the restored device again (more in the device sync article).
Restoring on the new device
"↑ Restore" opens that same backup file on the new device. Before applying it, a dialog shows honest numbers — how many entries, how many pieces, from which backup and date — and afterwards replaces everything on this device.
The email route — for the class connection only
Via /wiederherstellen, a voluntarily linked email address (a code by mail, double opt-in) brings back only the class connection, not your practice data — levels, practice journal and your own pieces only come back via the backup file. The old device is automatically logged out in the process: a profile only ever lives on one device at a time. That's specific to this email route — if you've set up device sync instead, there's no contradiction: sync deliberately keeps the same practice state in step across several of your own paired devices, without logging any of them out.
The email route — for the class connection only
Via /wiederherstellen, a voluntarily linked email address (a code by mail, double opt-in) brings back only the class connection, not your practice data — levels, practice journal and your own pieces only come back via the backup file. The old device is automatically logged out in the process: a profile only ever lives on one device at a time.
Farewell — take it with you, then delete
Under "Delete everything", the path first leads through a take-it-with-you view (your own pieces as MusicXML, collected in one ZIP file when there are two or more; your history as CSV; the complete backup — all optional) and only then to the actual deletion. Deletion itself requires typing "DELETE" to confirm and is permanent.
Your data:
Deleting removes everything from this device for good — there's no copy on a server that could be left behind, unless you've set up device sync: then an encrypted container lives there that only your own devices can open, and you can remove it too any time — including when deleting.
Your data:
Deleting removes everything from this device for good — there's no copy on a server that could be left behind.