After a slight delay, Apple announced Monday that a new app-slicing feature, which allows you to download only a parts of an application that is really needed to save storage space, is now available.
"The question concerning slicing application has been corrected, and device specific versions of the apps will be delivered when applications are downloaded by users running iOS 9.0.2 or later. If you use an older version of Apple's mobile OS, App Store will continue to offer universal application versions, which can contain things that do not work on your device and take some unnecessary space.
This comes after Apple in late September delayed the function, which was supposed to arrive with iOS 9, due to a bug in iCloud.
With the slicing application, developers can mark sections of an application that are specific to each apple devices. So when a 16 iPhone owner who is worried about free space will not download specific sections of iPad. It can even be reduced to specific devices, so you do not download things for iPhone 5s if you have an iPhone 6, for example.
"Slicing is the creative process and variants broadcast all of the application for different target devices," Apple explains on its iOS Developer Library. "A variant only contains the executable architecture and the resources that are necessary for the target device."
The feature should be particularly useful for those who are still buying Apple iPhones or iPads with 16GB storage, given the fact that Live Photos will eat a piece of your storage space, after all.
"The question concerning slicing application has been corrected, and device specific versions of the apps will be delivered when applications are downloaded by users running iOS 9.0.2 or later. If you use an older version of Apple's mobile OS, App Store will continue to offer universal application versions, which can contain things that do not work on your device and take some unnecessary space.
This comes after Apple in late September delayed the function, which was supposed to arrive with iOS 9, due to a bug in iCloud.
With the slicing application, developers can mark sections of an application that are specific to each apple devices. So when a 16 iPhone owner who is worried about free space will not download specific sections of iPad. It can even be reduced to specific devices, so you do not download things for iPhone 5s if you have an iPhone 6, for example.
"Slicing is the creative process and variants broadcast all of the application for different target devices," Apple explains on its iOS Developer Library. "A variant only contains the executable architecture and the resources that are necessary for the target device."
The feature should be particularly useful for those who are still buying Apple iPhones or iPads with 16GB storage, given the fact that Live Photos will eat a piece of your storage space, after all.
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