App thinning not thinning yet?

[Schtibbie]

I was wondering whether the App store was already serving up currently-existing versions of apps in "thinned" form (where those apps had already been properly compiled in the recent past)... I think it's not quite working yet maybe.

Netflix was shown as an example (somewhere I saw a presentation slide) where it should go from 41 to 29 megs or so. Sure enough, the app store shows it, on my iphone 6, as being 29 megs. But if I erase the app from my phone and re-download it with the "cloud" icon in appstore, it just redownloads the 41 meg version I previously had installed. NOT the 29 meg version advertised in the app store as being the current version.

Anyone have any other experiences?

 

[C DM]

What's in the App Store is essentially the compressed installation, and when the app is actually uncompressed and installed it's larger.

 

[Schtibbie]

What's in the App Store is essentially the compressed installation, and when the app is actually uncompressed and installed it's larger.

Ok, then my question stands somewhat: The app is just as big NOW as it was before ios 9 even though there was an advertised (by apple) size reduction for netflix. Perhaps they compiled a version of the app JUST as a proof of concept in thinning and that version isn't actually what's in the app store TODAY. ? Perhaps the first time we'll see any app thinning AT ALL will be after new releases of those apps. But i thought we'd be able to see it by deleting all our apps and reinstalling them on ios9.

 

[Jonx]

I've updated 10 apps today and the available storage gone from 300MB to 600MB. Maybe Netflix app doesn't actually have it yet?

 

[Jessica Lares]

Yeah, some of my apps have updated for it too, but a lot haven't yet.