{"id":11575,"date":"2015-06-25T15:47:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11575"},"modified":"2015-06-25T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:17:48","slug":"ios-9-space-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/ios-9-space-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 9 Space Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/david-smith.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/impact-of-ios-9-s-space-requirement\/\">David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/david-smith.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/impact-of-ios-9-s-space-requirement\/\"><p>At WWDC when Apple unveiled iOS 9 one of the features they highlighted was a reduction in the upgrade free space requirement from 4.6GB to 1.3GB.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>66%<\/strong> of my customers on eligible devices have at least 1.3GB of free space.  This compares to just 37% of users who would have immediately had sufficient space at the old iOS 8 requirement.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2015\/06\/ios-9-can-delete-and-automatically-re-download-apps-to-make-room-for-updates\/\">Andrew Cunningham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2015\/06\/ios-9-can-delete-and-automatically-re-download-apps-to-make-room-for-updates\/\"><p>iOS 9 is implementing some changes to make things easier on owners of 8GB and 16GB iPhones and iPads. We&rsquo;ve already taken <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2015\/06\/app-thinning-will-be-a-major-boon-for-8gb-and-16gb-iphones-and-ipads\/\">a look at App Thinning<\/a>, a collection of technologies that will reduce the amount of space downloaded apps take up.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Today, the company sent out its first update for the iOS 9 developer beta, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kaleb_Butt\/status\/613403921512411136\">iOS developer Kaleb Butt<\/a> noticed yet another feature&mdash;if you don&rsquo;t have the required free space, the operating system will offer to delete apps to make room for the update. It will then automatically re-download them when the update is complete.<\/p><p>Deleting an app from your phone or tablet normally takes all of that app&rsquo;s saved data and settings with it. Presumably, Apple has either devised a way to keep that from happening, or it&rsquo;s using iCloud to backup and restore your data along with the app.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Smith: At WWDC when Apple unveiled iOS 9 one of the features they highlighted was a reduction in the upgrade free space requirement from 4.6GB to 1.3GB. [&#8230;] 66% of my customers on eligible devices have at least 1.3GB of free space. This compares to just 37% of users who would have immediately had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1137,174],"class_list":["post-11575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11576,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions\/11576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}