Where Does Pinterest Store Boards and Pins?
Pinterest keeps boards and pins in your account with the phone holding offline cache in a private sandbox.
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Pinterest boards live server-side. Pins, sections, and follows attach to the account. The sandbox holds cached thumbnails and login session.
Pin sources decide permanence. Linked originals can vanish while the pin shell remains. Download important images separately; boards organize pointers, not archives.
Where Pinterest stores this, by platform
/data/data/com.pinterest
Private sandbox for cached thumbnails and session. Boards are account-side. Source links can rot even while pins persist.
/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/<guid>/Documents
Sandboxed container with the same account archive. Follows sync after login. Reinstalls only reset login state.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move Pinterest to a new phone?
Log in on the new phone. Boards, pins, and follows sync from the account. The sandbox held cached images that rebuild on first browse.
How do I save Pinterest images permanently?
Download originals from the pin source before relying on the app. Saved pins reference source links that can rot. Boards themselves sync and survive everything.
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