So there was a problem with my iOS device, and I restored it to a backup created a few weeks ago to be safe. However upon loading Fallout Shelter all the progress since the backup had been lost (quests, expansions, stats) Is my current game data still in the cloud – and if so, can I retrieve it?
Fallout – Game Progress Lost after Restoring from Backup
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I had the same problem as well, 70% of my people died when I closed my ipad and went out for about 15 mins. From the battery consumption I think the game didnt go into sleep mode, or it prevented the ipad to enter sleep mode, so the vault ran out of resources and dwellers died, etc. It was a vicious cycle trying to get back to normal. It took me two hours to raise the deads and stabilise my vault because the game threw all kind of catastrophes at me when I'm low on everything. Now my main power station still has a "something died in here" debuff that makes people terribly unhappy in that room. I think we need to log a bug to bethesda.
Your vault is not synchronised in the cloud.
Edit : since patch 1.2, it can be synchronized.
You have to enable Cloud save for your Vault in the load screen like so:
Manual backup
If you want to reinstall the game without using the cloud save, you can first make a copy of your save file - it is located in /Android/data/com.bethsoft.falloutshelter/files/VaultX.sav, either on your SD card or in the internal memory.
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You have to follow the instructions of Bethesda.
You can check the original page from bethesta.
http://help.bethesda.net/app/answers/detail/a_id/31236