App Update Changes

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realwarderrealwarder
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in iPhone edited January 2014


I just noticed that Apple must have changed the way they package App updates in iOS6.


 


My Garmin navigation app is normally a 1.3GB download and previous updates have taken forever.  Today, I just got an update pushed out which took about 2 minutes to download and apply.


 


There is no way that downloaded 1.3GB in that time over Wifi so I believe they must now be sending updates as a diff style differential update, which will be saving them a lot of bandwidth and users a lot of pain... we no longer need twice the install space to download and apply an update, which is what used to happen.


 


This is a neat new feature I've not read about.  The other being that updates no longer prompt for a password.

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member


    You didn't read about delta updates? iOS 5 brought that.

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    realwarderrealwarder Posts: 136member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    You didn't read about delta updates? iOS 5 brought that.



     


    It brought it for the OS, but not for Apps.

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