Automatic backups. Every 7 days, and after each import, RectoVerso writes a backup of your whole library to Files › iCloud Drive › RectoVerso, and keeps the newest four. It needs iCloud Drive turned on for your iPhone; nothing goes anywhere else. To turn them off, use ⋯ › Settings › Back up to iCloud Drive.
After a reinstall, RectoVerso finds the newest backup in your iCloud Drive and offers it: “Restore your library from September 28?” Restore brings everything back. Start fresh begins with an empty library and leaves the backup where it is.
A backup you make yourself: ⋯ › Settings › Back up library… makes one file with everything:
- every deck, with its pictures and sounds;
- everything you’ve learned, with how much of each answer you revealed;
- your shelves, the archive, each deck’s options and your settings.
Save it in Files, AirDrop it, or send it wherever you keep things. RectoVerso itself sends nothing anywhere. Your iPhone’s own backups (iCloud or a computer) include your library too.
To restore a file, use ⋯ › Settings › Restore from a backup…, or open the file with RectoVerso. Into an empty library it restores straight away. Otherwise it asks:
- Replace this library puts the backup’s decks, history and settings in place of what’s on this iPhone.
- Add its decks brings in the decks this iPhone doesn’t have, with their history. A deck that’s already here stays as it is.
A damaged backup, or one made by a newer version of RectoVerso, is refused, and nothing changes.