{"id":"apps.does-moving-an-app-back-keep-my-settings","url":"/faq/apps/does-moving-an-app-back-keep-my-settings","category":{"id":"apps","title":"Apps"},"subcategory":{"id":"moving-back","title":"Moving apps back"},"question":"Will I lose my app's settings if I move it back?","alt_questions":["Do preferences survive move back?","App data after moving app back","Settings after returning app to Mac"],"short_answer":"No. A moved app's settings and data never left your Mac, so moving the app back leaves them exactly as they were.","answer_markdown":"No. **Move** only ever relocated the app itself — its settings and data stayed on your Mac the whole time — so moving it back changes nothing about them. The app opens just as you left it.\n\n(For an **offloaded** app, Restore brings the app and its data back together.)","answer_html":"

No. Move only ever relocated the app itself — its settings and data stayed on your Mac the whole time — so moving it back changes nothing about them. The app opens just as you left it.

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(For an offloaded app, Restore brings the app and its data back together.)

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Apps · Moving apps back

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Will I lose my app's settings if I move it back?

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Short answer: No. A moved app's settings and data never left your Mac, so moving the app back leaves them exactly as they were.

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No. Move only ever relocated the app itself — its settings and data stayed on your Mac the whole time — so moving it back changes nothing about them. The app opens just as you left it.

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(For an offloaded app, Restore brings the app and its data back together.)

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