Even crazier, you could have a cloud version of that.
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Apple Says iOS 26 Can Reserve Space for Automatic Software Updates
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Sure, but you can always manually update those automatic updates. They get lonely for the personal touch.
I know it did so in the past for manually-applied updates. I'm not sure if it currently does, or if it ever has for automatic updates — I upgraded to more storage. 😀
Mass storage can behave anomalously when filled in excess of 90% of capacity. Filling mass storage to close to capacity represents very, very bad planning.
How will iPhone "know" how much space to reserve? Each update is a different size...
64GB not 32GB. The only iPhone/iPad which has OS 26 which is 32GB is the 8th Gen iPad
Put a hole in everyone device for the few people that fill an iPhone with photos and don’t know how to offload them to paid and free services? I’d rather they not, but maybe I’m in the minority.
I believe that’s because they roll them out. There are a LOT of iPhones out there. I’m shocked they can do all of them in a week, honestly.
That’s maybe above average. It’s pretty standard to download a compressed file, uncompress it, and update components while keeping a fully functional fallback in case the update fails due to reasons. That all takes more space than the compressed downloaded file.
Insert back in my day updating always meant installing an entirely new version, and if you didn’t have the room you’d have to trash the current version to make room here.
You distribute computers with ridiculously tiny storage and are surprised it's filled?
It's insane that Apple even sells anything with less than a terabyte in 2025, but your pain is self inflicted.
No, that's a really bad way to handle it. I'd much rather have my data on my computer, not somebody else's computer.Even crazier, you could have a cloud version of that.
(There is no cloud, only somebody else's computer.)
Potato harvest?I tend to only update in late August/early September.
When is iOS going to let me mark which apps to keep downloaded!
Even if it's by folder, EX. I don't use some of my Food Apps often, but when I do since Im using them like every 30ish days they get offloaded and then I have to redownload them... Not something I want to do while in the car OTA.....
Even if it's by folder, EX. I don't use some of my Food Apps often, but when I do since Im using them like every 30ish days they get offloaded and then I have to redownload them... Not something I want to do while in the car OTA.....
Frankly, people are never going to be happy with whatever the base storage amount is when there's the option of having more.
I’m interested in avoiding churn, and in avoiding the immaturity of the early minor versions. So I tend to upgrade late in the yearly cycle, and thus don’t have to deal with upgrades for almost a year, or sometimes two. For example, I’m on iOS 17.7 now, and will probably upgrade to 18.6 after it’s released. Or maybe I’ll wait until something like 26.5, since iOS 18 didn’t have that many features I’m keen on.
The USB-C port can be used for that, using a little USB stick. Some are pretty tiny.
I hope I will be able to disable this features, as sometimes the storage is more needed for something else. I want the choice anyway
I think this will be communicated from Apple servers. Or a fixed space will be reserved.
We use a school management system tied directly to Google Drive. There are some admin staff who need more but the average user shouldn't. We provide more to admin who need more. Do you have any idea how much 200 MacBook Airs cost if you upgrade anything?