While there is a lot of unfortunate size bloat in iOS apps (like the one in the article), including unnecessary architectures is not one of them. See the app t

While there is a lot of unfortunate size bloat in iOS apps (like the one in the article), including unnecessary architectures is not one of them. See the app thinning section here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/doing-advanced-optimization-to-further-reduce-your-app-s-size https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/doing-advanc... (which is automatically done on all apps distributed through the App Store)