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What happens if you replace or your phone or need to resintall the Wallet for some reason? If you synced your Memengo Wallet data to our web site, you can now sync it back from the web site to your phone – just install Wallet again and push the sync button on the iPhone.

Now, what to do if you don’t sync your data to our web site? You can use iTunes to create a backup. Here’s the procedure that I use to verify it works well:

1. Install Wallet on the new iPhone (or reinstall it, if it was previously removed for some reason)
2. Run Wallet and witness how all the data is gone and replaced by the default data
3. Using iTunes, right-click on the iPhone connection and then “Restore from Backup”
4. Run Wallet again, witness how your data is there again, instead of default data

Make sure to do your iTunes backup regularly!

Our next update is dedicated to usability improvements. There will be something for everyone!

The update was recently submitted to Apple an should post to the App Store in about 8 days, give or take.

• On Wallet startup you are now taken directly to the last place you looked at (after asking for key if wallet is encrypted). In the past this only worked on non-encrypted wallets so it wasn’t as good. Also, keyboard’s larger “return” key will also unlock the wallet in addition to the smaller “done” button. Thanks John for pointing both of these things out.
• Larger buttons with more descriptive text – Edit Wallet, Edit Folder, Delete Folder and Delete Wallet should now be easier to locate. This has given a pause to many of our users and it shouldn’t have.
• New card type by popular request: Frequent Traveler. It’s already on the web site. Let me know if you think it’s missing fields, I can add some more within reason.
• Fix for jittery display of large Notes (over 2000px tall). I know folks were waiting for this one. Apple has fixed this bug in iPhone OS 2.1, but if you’d rather not upgrade there is a workaround: the text will be cut short and you need to press “Edit” to see the rest of it. The workaround will be removed after everyone upgrades to the new iPhone OS 2.1 (about 6 month form now).
• More accurate highlighting of clickable fields.
• Text Notes now occupy entire width of the screen (sans padding), not 3/4 as was the case before.

We recommend that you make a backup of your iPhone using iTunes before installing any application update.

Are there rough edges that still need polishing? Let me know in the comments.

In my next two posts I will cover:

• What new big features are at the top of our list?
• How to use iTunes backup to preserve your data (especially for those who don’t use our web site sync option)?