How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just disappeared from my phone? I use a fitness app. My metrics, such as steps, workout routines, heart rate, are collected from a wearable device like a smartwatch and sent to the app via Bluetooth. No third-party servers are involved in that transaction. The data lives on the phone. It costs the developer nothing to maintain, because there's nothing to maintain on their end. Then the app updates, just once, and that data is no longer accessible. Not because it was deleted or corrupted. Because the developer decided you now need to create an account on their servers to access information that already exists on your own device. That's why I have auto-update disabled on every device I own. Some of the apps on my phone are older than my children. You couldn't download them today even if you wanted to. The developer no longer offers that version. One of my apps is a single screen that displays…
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