Tech News: This iOS 9 feature will give your 16GB iPhone a massive boost

This iOS 9 feature will give your 16GB iPhone a massive boost

Apple has finally released its App Thinning feature which was meant to arrive with iOS 9. Issues held it back, but it's now been included iOS 9.0.2 and should be hugely beneficial, especially to users with 16GB devices.

It allows developers to cut down the storage size of apps, by letting users download just a basic file initially, followed by extra content as and when it's needed.

In many cases much of the extra content won't be needed. For example if you're downloading a universal app on an iPhone 6S you won't need to download the larger iPad artwork, where previously you just had to download everything whether you needed it or not.

Making 16GB viable again

Given that many apps are absolutely massive now and Apple doesn't allow for microSD cards this could make all the difference and breathe new life into 16GB devices.

We'd still like to see them scrapped and for 32GB to become the new smallest size but we'll take what we can get. Let's just hope lots of developers take advantage of the App Thinning feature.

iOS 9.0.2 has fixed other issues too.