Good information: Apple now lets you obtain larger apps over a mobile connection than it used to.
Bad information: there’s nonetheless a cap, and you continue to can’t bypass it.
As seen by 9to5Mac, the iOS App Store now allows you to obtain apps as much as 200 MB in measurement whereas on a cell community; something larger than that, and also you’ll want to connect with WiFi. Before this transformation, the cap was 150 MB.
And in the event you’ve received a vast (be it really limitless or cough-cough-‘unlimited’) plan, or if you’ve received sufficient month-to-month information left to cowl a giant obtain, otherwise you simply actually, actually want a sure large app and WiFi simply isn’t out there? You’re nonetheless out of luck. That 200 MB cap hits everybody. People have discovered tough, fleeting workarounds to bypass the cap through the years, however there’s no official “Yeah, yeah, the app is huge, I know.” button to click on or energy consumer setting to toggle.
The App Store being cautious about file measurement isn’t inherently a foul factor; with many customers solely getting an allotment of a pair gigs a month, just a few unintentional downloads over the cell networks can eat up that information fast. But it actually does suck to open up an app you want and discover it’s requiring some replace that exceeds the cap, solely to appreciate you’re nowhere close to a pleasant WiFi community. At least give us the selection, ?
On the upside, most builders appear to be fairly conscious of the cap; they’ll hack and slash their app set up bundle till it squeaks beneath the restrict, even when it means downloading extra stuff by way of the app itself post-install. Now, no less than, they’ve received 50 extra megabytes of wiggle room to start out with.
