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Cygnus · 10-25-2023, 04:36 PM

I had to replace my iPhone 14, and didn't realize Marvin SXS was gone from the app store.

After some googling I discovered this forum and the thread about using imazing to restore Marvin. I grabbed my wife's phone since the purchase was through my account, and while most the apps would appear under device and my library, Marvin did not, and an error was thrown when I tried to get it to download from the cloud.

I then found my old iPad (from before lightning connectors) running ios 9 and loaded it into iMazing. I discovered that Marvin was not on it, BUT with that old device connected I could now download Marvin from apple into the My Library section of iMazing. Then I just clicked the button to install it on my iPhone from the IPA file and its back up and running on my replacement phone! no clue why it allowed me to restore it to the library when it wasn't installed on the old iPad.

On another note, before I discovered this method I did try i2Reader since it had OPDS capability. It was OK once I tweaked it a bit, but I did miss the feature of changing brightness by swiping up and down the middle of the screen.

10-25-2023, 04:36 PM	#260
Cygnus Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2023 Device: iPhone 14 Pro Max	iMazing Worked...eventually. I had to replace my iPhone 14, and didn't realize Marvin SXS was gone from the app store. After some googling I discovered this forum and the thread about using imazing to restore Marvin. I grabbed my wife's phone since the purchase was through my account, and while most the apps would appear under device and my library, Marvin did not, and an error was thrown when I tried to get it to download from the cloud. I then found my old iPad (from before lightning connectors) running ios 9 and loaded it into iMazing. I discovered that Marvin was not on it, BUT with that old device connected I could now download Marvin from apple into the My Library section of iMazing. Then I just clicked the button to install it on my iPhone from the IPA file and its back up and running on my replacement phone! no clue why it allowed me to restore it to the library when it wasn't installed on the old iPad. On another note, before I discovered this method I did try i2Reader since it had OPDS capability. It was OK once I tweaked it a bit, but I did miss the feature of changing brightness by swiping up and down the middle of the screen.