How to restore eWallet data on your iPhone or iPad

Every once in a while we get an email like, “Help, I deleted eWallet and now all my wallet information is gone!” Yes, iOS/iPadOS (the iPhone/iPad operating systems) will delete all of an application’s data when the app itself is deleted (this is true for any app, not just eWallet). Fortunately, eWallet^® for iPhone & iPad provides several different methods to protect your data:

eWallet can sync your data to the Dropbox cloud
eWallet can sync your data to the Google Drive cloud
eWallet can sync your data to the Microsoft OneDrive cloud
eWallet can sync your data to iCloud
eWallet can sync your data via a local Wi-Fi connection to the optional eWallet for Windows or eWallet for macOS versions
eWallet can create a backup using its built-in Email Wallet Backup feature

Apple also provides the ability to backup your entire system via iCloud, Finder, and/or iTunes.

Restoring your wallet file

There are several ways to get your eWallet data back on your iPhone or iPad:

If you used the built-in backup-facility in eWallet to email yourself a backup, you can open that email (or send yourself a new email and attach your saved wallet) and eWallet for iPhone & iPad will be able to open the attachment; just open your email on your Apple mobile device, tap and hold the attached wallet file and choose to open it in eWallet
If you synced to the cloud with Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive, follow our instructions here under “Option 2 - My wallet is in the cloud but not yet on my device”
If you synced with to the cloud with Apple’s iCloud, follow our iCloud instructions here under the “to setup additional iOS devices with iCloud” section
If you synced over a local Wi-Fi connection with the macOS or Windows version of eWallet, then you should be able to setup sync to your iPhone or iPad and sync over a new copy of your wallet

If none of those restore features work for you, then please see the Apple section below on other possible options.

Apple restore options

The information above should help you restore your wallet information in most cases. If you can’t for some reason though, there may be other ways to get your data back outside of using eWallet itself.

1. Restore system from iCloud or iTunes

If you use iCloud or iTunes to back up your entire device, then you should be able to restore your device from that iCloud or iTunes backup as well.

2. Restore just the wallet file from iTunes

It may be possible that a backup of your eWallet data has been saved by iTunes automatically. We have no control over iTunes, so we cannot guarantee that iTunes has a backup of your data, but you could try to recover your data by doing this:

On a PC or a Mac:

Go to this site to download and install the Free Edition of the iPhone Backup Extractor: http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/free-download/
Once installed, iPhone Backup Extractor will start up by itself
Under Devices and your iOS device, choose the backup from which you would like to recover your data
Click the “Expert Mode” tab (to the right) to display a navigable tree-view of the data inside your selected backup
Click the + next to Application Groups → com.iliumsoft.eWallet.SharedStorage → Documents, where you should see all wallet (.wlt) data files that were saved in the backup (for eWallet versions earlier than 8.4, use Application → com.iliumsoft.eWallet → Documents)
Check the box next to one of your wallets; The free version of the backup extractor may only be able to extract one file at a time
Click the “Extract” button for the option to save the wallet file to your computer
When it comes up asking you to pay, just click CONTINUE, under the Free version
Save the extracted wallet file to your Documents folder.
Open your Documents folder, and double-click the wallet file you saved here, to open in eWallet

If your data is here, you can close the iPhone backup extractor utility.