Where did my memories go after the update?

The new version of Little Memory keeps your memories on your iPhone instead of on my server, so the first time it opens it asks whether to bring your memories over. If you tapped Not now or Start a new journal, the app opens to an empty diary, and it can look as though everything is gone.

Nothing is gone. Every memory you wrote is still saved on your account, exactly as you left it. Importing only reads from the account and never changes it, so your memories there are safe whatever happens in the app.

Bring your memories over

Open Little Memory and go to Settings.
Look at the Account section.
If it says Logged in with your email, the app already knows your account. Tap it, then tap Import memories.
If it says Restore from account, tap that and sign in with the email and password you used for Little Memory. If you don’t remember the password, Forgot password? on that screen sends a reset link that opens the app for you.
On the Import memories screen, switch on the two acknowledgements above the button. Start import won’t begin until both are on. Then tap it, and Replace and import to confirm.
Leave the app open while it works. A large diary can take a few minutes, and photos come down after the words.

When it finishes, your days are back where they were.

If you already wrote in the empty diary

Importing replaces whatever is in the app with the memories from your account, so anything you wrote since the update would be replaced. If there are days you’d like to keep, copy them out first (a note, an email to yourself) and add them again once the import is done. It’s a small step, and it’s the only one where something could be lost.

If you use Little Memory on more than one device

Import on one device only. Once it’s done, update Little Memory on the others and sign in, and your memories arrive there on their own through iCloud (every device needs to be signed into the same iCloud account).

Until you update the other device, the old version of the app on it will stop showing your memories once the import is done. That’s expected: they have moved to the new version and are waiting for it there.

What changes after you import

New memories live in the app and sync between your devices with iCloud.
They no longer sync back to the old website, so the email reminders stop.

If you lose your phone

Your memories are not only on the phone. The app keeps a copy in your private iCloud (Settings › iCloud Sync shows its status), so a new phone signed into the same iCloud account gets them back on its own. Nobody else, me included, can read that copy.

If anything still looks off after the import, write to me and we’ll sort it out together.