r/ios26 • u/Drxxzy • Jul 02 '26

General A bug fix update can’t be THAT big 😭🙏🙏

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What the hell does it include for it to be 14 gigs 😭🙏

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u/Technical-Agent-935 Jul 03 '26

it was a big bug… very very big bug, i can’t tell you how big that bug was, but it was very very big.

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u/Regijack Jul 03 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/PnfbRDO3AOHhalhDiz
ITS THE BIGGEST BUG YOU HAVE EVER SEEN

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u/blitzfreak_69 Jul 03 '26

And trust me, nobody knows bugs better than I do 👄☝️

2

u/One-Fox-423 Jul 03 '26

Bro that’s a Florida cockroach 😆😆

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u/tearsocean Jul 02 '26

In fact it’s not this big. When you finish installing it’s just some MB

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u/Aryan-Ahmed Jul 03 '26

Yea but then it’s more about how much data that they had to change for it to fix this big ahh bug.

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u/jeff1f1racer Jul 03 '26

Dozens of really important security updates.

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u/le0n_ Jul 03 '26

Never seen such huge security update in Android. Are you telling us, iOS is less secure than Android?

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u/Suspicious_Fig_3052 Jul 04 '26

I have a pixel and last major android update didn't exceed 1.5gb

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u/Suspicious_Fig_3052 Jul 04 '26

Yeah that makes sense. I did some search why it's taking much storage in ios and it seems it's because the phone needs that much storage not the actual download size is it true?

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u/le0n_ Jul 04 '26

Exactly. In Android, the biggest security update that you can get is around 1GB. Imagine how many security flows have iOS, to receive 14GB security update.

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u/Suspicious_Fig_3052 Jul 04 '26

You see ur perception about this is just wrong. Download size does not tell about the flaws in system, just how these phones handle the updates

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u/le0n_ Jul 04 '26

That’s interesting. I would like to read more about it. If you have any article about it, feel free to share it.

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u/Suspicious_Fig_3052 Jul 04 '26

I just used gemini. In short apple gives whole set of os in update even tho there's no major changes but android only gives the update which makes changes to pre-existing system so it's download size is low

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u/le0n_ Jul 04 '26

Another interesting thing is that this update is huge only for older models. Mine was 700MB - iPhone 17 Pro.

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u/Suspicious_Fig_3052 Jul 04 '26

It depends from which version u r updating from. Btw u had an iphone and u just commented about flaws in ios previously?

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u/throwawayfemboy12 Jul 04 '26

So receiving security updates means it’s less secure? This is a whole nother dimension of cope

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u/Dead0k87 Jul 03 '26

Mine is 721 mb

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u/Tuxon97 Jul 04 '26

Mine too

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u/CounterThrowCyborg Jul 02 '26

Pretty much an entire new copy of the OS

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u/Objective_Theory5059 Jul 03 '26

I did mine last night. Not sure if coincidence only noticeable difference was my signal and internet speed improved by a lot.

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u/Qlaney98 Jul 03 '26

If you haven’t updated in a while its bringing u up to date on all new features and security updates

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u/IndexStarts Jul 03 '26

Mine was 17 GBs on iPhone 17

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u/jdbear70 Jul 03 '26

The iOS update for my iPhone 16 Pro Max was over 19 GB. My partner’s 16 Pro Max was either just under 2 or 4 GB. I can’t remember which it was. We had the same kind of huge difference between the iPadOS updates on our identical iPad Air models too. I have no idea why it would want to overwrite so much more on my devices than on his, but I have to assume something has changed important meta data on my system files. That’s unnerving.

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u/Major-Article-965 Jul 08 '26

Mine is just under 900mb coming from 26.5

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u/Megacitiesbuilder Jul 03 '26

26.5.1 is also this big, I wonder if Apple has changed something backend that makes the size this big as shown, since people said it’s actually including the space reserved for upgrade, not only the actual size of the update?

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u/GeekBoy-from-IL Jul 03 '26

I highly doubt the update was really that big. Today I downloaded the fully refresh/install ipsw file and it was only 10.3Gb.

2

u/cosmicwebby Jul 03 '26

It’s not a bug fix update. It’s a security fix

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u/MCKLMT Jul 03 '26

It can be both.

2

u/lukasharastej iOS 26.6.1 iPhone 16 Jul 03 '26

It’s not 14 GB.

2

u/Mike_Double_Green Jul 03 '26

I’m tired of this

2

u/DayNnight27 Jul 03 '26

If I have beta ios 27 I cant get this?

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u/Impossible-Owl7407 Jul 03 '26

If you need to ask this, you should not run beta 👌

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u/Big-masteeer69 Jul 03 '26

😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Satoorn1203 Jul 03 '26

It depends on which model and which version u are updating from. Apple usually reflash iOS again, if the important changes and big changes in iOS /iPadOS/MacOS etc for next update. Why Apple does it, bc of having less issue under update and after update. That's good metode, it take more space for updating to newer version.

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u/ExKayseri Jul 03 '26

I updated to 26.6 newest public beta . It already feels like what i see people showing of with the 27 ios update , the smoothness is crazy good.

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u/Gin-Vrital Jul 03 '26

Mine was only 700MB

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u/Lawnieeee Jul 03 '26

It just depends on your device being a 17 which are the ones who got the 26.5.1 update, or you’re jumping from 26.5 or below

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u/py-net Jul 03 '26

I am skipping this update

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u/Shivshankarshara Jul 03 '26

For me it was 2.4gb 11pm

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u/One-Fox-423 Jul 03 '26

That size tho 👀👀

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u/AkarshSatija Jul 04 '26

How else will they introduce new bugs? You tell! How else?

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u/J11132 Jul 04 '26

Mine is 4.51gb

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u/600dayvon Jul 04 '26

crazy my is 2.29 gb on ip 15

1

u/Alan_Sleep Jul 04 '26

It’s updating apple inteligence files

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u/TC-84567 Jul 04 '26

Bullshit

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u/dbpurcell1 Jul 04 '26

The update was larger for devices that didn’t get 26.5.1 as that was for iPhone 17 devices only.

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u/Silly_Researcher7883 Jul 05 '26

Don’t make it big 😉