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Average, yes, probably an exaggeration. Some apps iOS: wechat: 740meg gmail: 672 google chat: 585 uber: 582

• mh- 1y ago
  I thought these couldn't possibly be right and you must be including their storage and cache usage, but I'm seeing similar reported on my iPhone. Rounded to the nearest megabyte. Gmail: 612mb Facebook: 359mb YouTube: 303mb Amex: 365mb I'm still skeptical (or just hopeful?) that there's some storage accounting bug here, and it's including caches. I'm not in a place to plug it into Xcode right now, maybe someone else can check the actual IPAs? edit: also, I do see Apple's own apps in mine. Music reports 39mb; Photos 791kB (lol?)
  • jazzypants 1y ago
    Amex being 300mb is genuinely hilarious. What does that app even do?
    • justinclift 1y ago
      Probably doing CHIA in the background. ;)
  • tonyhart7 1y ago
    its including cache + data files not just an 'APP' my youtube is literally 10gb because I use it a lot, doesnt mean youtube is "bloated" or "heavy"
    • mh- 1y ago
      I am leaving out the "data" figure in my counts. As I said, I think there's a bug/misrepresentation in the figures shown in iOS settings.
      • tonyhart7 1y ago
        they use react native maybe
• chrisandchris 1y ago
  > uber: 582 Not to defend Uber, but there was a post here some time ago where one engineer explained why it's so large (sadly can't find it anymore): it's due to a lot of different implementations for different markets (some masks may have slight differences in different countries) and their choise to re-implement the masks multiple times.
  • KeplerBoy 1y ago
    A few different UIs don't justify hundreds of extra megabytes. We just collectively stopped caring.
  • mixermachine 1y ago
    UI definitions should add very little storage space. Different images and videos might add a lot.
• fph 1y ago
  Now I understand why those 128 GB get full so quick.
• tpmoney 1y ago
  > of course Apple doesn't list the size of their own apps like Apple Maps, Photos, Music, etc... You can find that in the phone storage settings: iOS: 12 G Keynote: 498 M Numbers: 482 M Pages: 455 M Clips: 213 M Maps: 81 M Watch: 70 M Find My: 60 M Music: 38 M iTunes U: 35 M Support: 34 M Podcasts: 32 M Books: 31 M iCloud Drive: 30 M Freeform: 19 M Fitness: 18 M Notes: 17 M Journal: 15 M Home: 10 M App Store: 8 M Weather: 8 M Mail: 7 M Files: 4 M Health: 3 M Measure: 3 M Voice Memos: 3 M Calendar: 2 M Clock: 2 M Safari: 2 M Shortcuts: 2 M Translate: 2 M TV: 2 M Calculator: 1 M Facetime: 1 M iTunes Store: 1 M Tips: 1 M Wallet: 934 K Messages: 860 K Photos: 791 K Compass: 712 K Camera: 635 K Contacts: 598 K Phone: 570 K Magnifier: 516 K Passwords: 213 K There's also an "Apple Inc." listing, which appears to be "shared" between a lot of their apps which clocks in at 204M My takeaway from having gone through the list and compared to the various 3rd party apps: 1) Apps can absolutely be smaller. Plenty of stuff in the <200MB range including things like Signal, OBD Fusion and Infuse 2) Games are often big, but there's a surprising number of "simple" apps that are larger than some of the games 3) The largest apps seem to be from companies that you would expect to be doing the most tracking of your data 4) Apple's first party app sizes probably explain a little about why they weren't in a hurry to upgrade storage sizes
  • ciabattabread 1y ago
    > Maps: 81 M Is MapKit considered iOS or Maps?
    • tpmoney 1y ago
      No idea, those are the numbers as reported in the settings app. I would assume it's part of the OS since it's a framework for other apps to tap into mapping functionality. For comparison Sygic is 324 MB. Waze is 170 MB, Tom Tom is 251 MB, Magic Earth is 135 MB and OSM And is 238 MB
• jiehong 1y ago
  On Android, is the Gmail app actually a PWA? Saying this as Google tried to push PWA hard, but it doesn’t seem like they do it for their own stuff.