If you mean auto-update per app then yes. Google Play store can do this and sometimes it is pretty useful - especially when developer decides to cut off some features in the updated version of the app (I'm looking at you GoPro).
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App Store App Can Now Tell You How Long an App Will Take to Download in iOS 17
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Is it the users or Apple and the people that write about Apple, that think every little announcement is something game-changing or groundbreaking? 🤔
Is this really need it? Don’t we have enough common sense to tell these days after using the App Store for years that what’s along and what short?
If its anything like the 'Time remaining' on any other download / install from Apple (see particularly OS), its not even a best guess.
Most of us if not all of us are under Wi-Fi at home. Or personal Wi-Fi Spots. Hence if I’m going to download an app without Wi-Fi I’m gonna hesitate to download it then. And wait until I get home. I have a 20 GB plan per month and it rolls over every month. I’m very happy with it. So if I really need to download it I’ll download it regardless if I have it or not. I don’t need something like this to help me understand. I look at the size of the app before I download it. Hence I use some common sense when I decide OK I really need this I’ll download it. Regardless of what size it is. If it’s important I will download it then so the size of it it does not matter
It is interesting how Apollo is popping up a lot now. I actually just left reddit (Deleted my account) and one of the reasons was how they treated 3rd party apps and those dumb fees. Now I just need to get through the Reddit withdrawl.
Hey, hey! Hold your horses right there.
You think this is a little thing? You can't be serious. This is not a little thing by any means.
This is another most innovative thing in the download progress bar technology. Watch out, everyone in the industry is going to copy this and we'll laugh at todays naysayers in a few years!
Reddit hasn’t had a good look in any sense of the word for about eight or nine years now.
Is it me or did Craig finally seem to be relating to some of the frustrations users have been having with the limitations of iOS? I really don’t like a lot about Android but it’s hard to ignore that while the overall system is a disaster, the individual apps generally have a lot better working features in exactly these kinds of things. Better keyboard, even basic multitasking, etc.
Hopefully this is a sign of better things to come. All the talk of stickers was not encouraging but we’ll see what we find when it actually ships.
Was Craig sick during the keynote? He seemed to speed through a lot of that and I don't think we got a memorable Craig moment like we typically do.
They were rushing through the OS updates to get to the main event that being the Vision Pro.
He got in a lot of one-liners, but graded on the curve of unnatural Apple enthusiasm, he did seem to be a little more low key and down to Earth than usual.
I guess he was bummed he wasn’t the focus of the show anymore. Apple said about five times that Vision Pro is just the start of a major new platform. iOS may not be the darling anymore.
Multiple Timers, Download time... Hairforce one said it best, we live in amazing times!
Nice addition.
But.
How is it possible - after all these years - that it still doesn't remember or show my recent searches, and that I am not able to bookmark apps I'd like to get back to later.
And why on earth I cannot sort apps and games by release date....
I want to look at the newest weather apps, for example - no way to do it.
I hate this, to be honest.
But.
How is it possible - after all these years - that it still doesn't remember or show my recent searches, and that I am not able to bookmark apps I'd like to get back to later.
And why on earth I cannot sort apps and games by release date....
I want to look at the newest weather apps, for example - no way to do it.
I hate this, to be honest.
Well not yet, hopefully that won't happen. I like bringing attention to it while it is still with us.
oh Craig…the ultimate dad-joker of Apple. he and everyone involved knew that it was ridiculously overdue and and I interpreted that statement as being rather tongue-in-cheek.
that being said, I do also find it odd how many small-but-useful UX things were left out of the keynote…had to make time for Vision Pro, I guess.
It’s something to take away in a future update, like the battery percentage, to make people realize they did indeed like it or something 😂
