Apple increases size limit of App Store downloads to 4GB

Apple on Thursday announced that the size limit of application packages submitted through iTunes Connect can now be as large as 4 gigabytes, doubling the previous 2-gigabyte restriction.

The update allows developers to use more media in their App Store submissions and provide a more complete and rich user experience upon installation.

The change does not affect downloads over LTE or other cellular data networks, which remain restricted to 100 megabytes to conserve users' mobile data plans.

Also on Thursday, Apple announced TestFlight Groups, a new feature that allows developers to organize testers into groups. With this, groups of testers can be sent specific builds and separate instructions, while developers can also apply an action to several testers at once.

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37 Comments

MacPro

said about 9 years ago

Commonly used file sizes from 1970s through to today: ... KB ... MB .... now GB soon to be TB

pmz

said about 9 years ago

Didn't actually know there was a 2 GB limit.

Oh and in the article: "100 MB" not gigabytes

thewhitefalcon

said about 9 years ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmz

Didn't actually know there was a 2 GB limit.

Oh and in the article: "100 MB" not gigabytes

Same, I didn't know a limit existed. I guess some of these apps were compressed? I have one that was 2.4GB.

kpluck

said about 9 years ago

I guess it is good that they changed the base storage of iOS devices to 32GB instead of 16GB....oh wait

-kpluck

suddenly newton

said about 9 years ago

[quote name="kpluck" url="/t/184776/apple-increases-size-limit-of-app-store-downloads-to-4gb#post_2675175"]I guess it is good that they changed the base storage of iOS devices to 32GB instead of 16GB....oh wait -kpluck [/quote] do you have a 16GB iPhone or is this just another cheap shot at Apple?