The thing I don’t understand is why they blocked RSR behind a password prompt. You can’t even use Face ID / Touch ID and in my experience that plus a reboot means a lot of people will put it off as long as they can.
iOS also really needs to trigger the automatic Photos + Apps storage reclamation process since statistically everyone I know who delays updates does it because their phone is full of pictures & videos. The iCloud offload works beautifully so I don’t know why they haven’t added a trigger multiple years into that feature existing.
> The thing I don’t understand is why they blocked RSR behind a password prompt.
As I recall there’s something they can’t decrypt without your password that they need to decrypt during updates. You could say “that’s their choice” but maybe they worry if their signing keys leaked that at least you’d also need to type your password in to kick off an update.
> The iCloud offload works beautifully so I don’t know why they haven’t added a trigger multiple years into that feature existing.
Guessing this comes down more to bandwidth as to why it’s opt in. If there’s enough speed to upload your photos but not download them when the update completes, you’re going to be upset. Or if you get on a plane and your iPad is doing an update and it completes after takeoff but all your movies/games were offloaded, you’d be upset.
(That’s probably fixable by doing some math to figure out if it’s workable, or by asking the user on the update screen if they’d like to offload and reload. But it wouldn’t be 100% automated, which is what I think you were asking?)
Yeah, I’m sure there’s a good reason for it. I’m just surprised it’s lingered for years since it’s such an effective deterrent.
> Or if you get on a plane and your iPad is doing an update and it completes after takeoff but all your movies/games were offloaded, you’d be upset.
I could see something like that (although you could do things like install at night when you’re at home) but it’s completely opaque: you’ll just stop getting updates, nothing will ever prompt you, and it forces you to do cleanup manually. At the very least I’d expect a prompt and a “clear up space” button.
> since statistically everyone I know who delays updates does it because their phone is full of pictures & videos
As someone who doesn't use iCloud to store pictures or videos, can you explain what this has anything to do with updates? Is it because their device is so full that they don't have disk space to download the update? And Apple doesn't temporarily grant them additional iCloud storage?
Updates won’t install without a few GB free. Currently, that just disables them with no prompting to fix the problem. It seems like it should do things like tell you and, if you have iCloud Photos, messages off-loading, Drive, etc. enabled it could use those services to release the local cache for things which are already backed up.
iOS also really needs to trigger the automatic Photos + Apps storage reclamation process since statistically everyone I know who delays updates does it because their phone is full of pictures & videos. The iCloud offload works beautifully so I don’t know why they haven’t added a trigger multiple years into that feature existing.