The top iPhone apps use 4x more space than they did five years ago
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Apps are growing in size as more and more technology is added to the iOS ecosystem. What you need to know Apple unveiled its brand new iOS 15 operating system at WWDC 2021 this week. With each passing year, new technology on iOS means iPhone apps are getting bigger and bigger. Research shows the top 10 apps on iPhone are now (on average) four times larger in size than they were five years ago. A new report from Sensor Tower into Apple`s App Store reveals that the top ten apps on iOS are four times larger in size than they were five years ago, highlighting how apps are growing each year. Sensor Tower notes how yearly gains in iOS software, most recently with the introduction of iOS 15, lead to new technologies and APIs that take up more space on a user`s iPhone. From the report With the introduction of these new technologies ultimately comes an increase in app sizes, which have grown substantially as the sophistication of Apple`s software has ballooned. Case in point, acco...