- Every Google app is > 150 MB. Probably all of the Google libraries are included in every app. - Two banking apps with identical functionality: one is 163 MB, the other is 20 MB. How did the (better) bank efficiently squeeze all the functionality into their app that the bank required 163 MB to do? - Hugely bloated apps like Twitter are nothing but web shells and occupy 300 MB plus data/cache.
I realize that this is like shaking my fist at clouds, but what can we do? Is this simply lazy app development, including too many libraries or debug symbols?
Someone will say, "upgrade your phone." Yes, this is what Apple would like me to do, ideally every year. I have a different mentality about the longevity of electronics and e-waste. The only thing that would be driving my upgrade at this point is unnecessarily bloated apps.
If an app is bloated you can review it in the App Store and mention the problem.
Otherwise you can make more space by moving some of the data to the cloud, such as the music you don’t listen often or your old pictures.
Getting a new phone with a lot of storage is the easiest.
Facebook is also very feature heavy and they don't apologize for that. Every week something new is added (like in their recent 'favorites' feature and short video Reels crap). They need to be bloated because they are bloated apps by design. It would be nice to have 'lite' versions of the apps however.
Where possible, use and support apps from smaller, independent iOS developers. I realize this only works for some categories of apps.
may help slightly