4 ms·

Yes, that's the expected behaviour if you activate automatic downloads. That said, what I find annoying is that every minor Apple OS update, iOS and macOS alike

Yes, that's the expected behaviour if you activate automatic downloads. That said, what I find annoying is that every minor Apple OS update, iOS and macOS alike, from the download size at least seems to include the entire OS again. Minor updates should be incremental. I suppose Windows isn't any different. Linux on the other hand is much more frugal in terms of individual upgrade download sizes because the actual OS is just the kernel while the rest of the software can be updated independently.

ksec 10y ago
Same with iOS Apps. Apple doesn't seems to care about their bandwidth transfer. May be there is a reason behind this. I would love to know why.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  I'm not sure what the default is, but in my settings, "Use Cellular Data" for automatic updates is off.
  - minnowguy 10y ago
    He said he was tethered to the phone during the Skype call. The laptop probably doesn't know it is using a cellular connection.
    - andrewstuart2 10y ago
      That's not to say it couldn't try to guess, though. Not that I'd have thought of this unprompted, but low bandwidth, high latency, and an IP address (as seen by the update server) assigned to a mobile carrier. Seems like a good time to throw a pop-up and say "We think you might be tethered. Are you sure you want to continue downloading four gigabytes?" As an aside, and if it doesn't already, DHCP should have some way of altering clients that they're on a metered connection.
    - tedmiston 10y ago
      The parent comment is talking about iOS though.
- Tempest1981 10y ago
  Is that true? Read the last paragraph here: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index... "For devices running iOS 7.1 and later, the update package may include only the differences between the old and new versions of a changed file instead of the full file. This may significantly reduce the size of the update package in the case where only a small part of a large file changes" (Not sure why it says "may")
  - ksec 10y ago
    That is the iOS itself. Not Apps. You have to download 150MB everytime there is an Facebook update.

ksec 10y ago

Same with iOS Apps. Apple doesn't seems to care about their bandwidth transfer. May be there is a reason behind this. I would love to know why.

tedmiston 10y ago
I'm not sure what the default is, but in my settings, "Use Cellular Data" for automatic updates is off.
- minnowguy 10y ago
  He said he was tethered to the phone during the Skype call. The laptop probably doesn't know it is using a cellular connection.
  - andrewstuart2 10y ago
    That's not to say it couldn't try to guess, though. Not that I'd have thought of this unprompted, but low bandwidth, high latency, and an IP address (as seen by the update server) assigned to a mobile carrier. Seems like a good time to throw a pop-up and say "We think you might be tethered. Are you sure you want to continue downloading four gigabytes?" As an aside, and if it doesn't already, DHCP should have some way of altering clients that they're on a metered connection.
  - tedmiston 10y ago
    The parent comment is talking about iOS though.
Tempest1981 10y ago
Is that true? Read the last paragraph here: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index... "For devices running iOS 7.1 and later, the update package may include only the differences between the old and new versions of a changed file instead of the full file. This may significantly reduce the size of the update package in the case where only a small part of a large file changes" (Not sure why it says "may")
- ksec 10y ago
  That is the iOS itself. Not Apps. You have to download 150MB everytime there is an Facebook update.