localStorage cleared on app restart with Cordova 1.7 and iOS 5.1.1

Question

From my extensive reading, the iOS 5.1 localStorage/WebSQL behavior change that Apple instituted has been fully rolled into Cordova 1.6.0. However, while running on my (new)

Answer 1

Try using 1.7 - I had a similar issue and once I upgraded to 1.7 everything worked like it used to.

Try using localStorage vs window.localStorage syntax.

Also set what ever you're trying to call as a global variable...

var globalVar;

function onDeviceReady(){
  globalVar = localStorage.getItem('something');
}