If an apple update fixes a few bugs in the code. How come the update can be over 4GB? Wouldn’t they just push certain aspects?

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If an apple update fixes a few bugs in the code. How come the update can be over 4GB? Wouldn’t they just push certain aspects?

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It’s far easier and faster for them to replace the entire set of files with the new code in them, than it is to code a patch to modify each file it has to with whatever code needs to be changed.  To them, the download size is a *you* problem they don’t have to care about.

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