How to See the Size of App Store Updates on iPhone or iPad
Knowing the exact size of an available App Store update before beginning the app update and download process can be helpful for many iPhone or iPad users. The iOS App Store offers the size of available app updates, but you must know where to look to find that download size information.
This trick is probably most relevant for iPhone or iPad users with slower internet connections or who are in limited bandwidth situations, but it’s obviously useful to anyone else who simply finds it helpful to know the size of something before they begin to download it.
How to See Size of App Store Updates Before Downloading on iOS
- Open the App Store on the iPhone or iPad
- Go to the “Updates” tab and find any available app update that you want to see the update download size for
- Tap on the blue “more” text button
- Find the full update download size in the pop up dialog
- Repeat with other apps in the App Store Updates section as desired
If you wish to see the download size of all available updates, you’ll have to repeat the above process with each of the apps that have updates available. Just click on the “more” button for each app update that you are interested in.
Unfortunately there’s no way to see all app update sizes at the same time at the Updates screen, nor is there a way to see the total sizes of all updates combined together, so if you’re using the bulk App Store update feature in the iOS App Store then you won’t be able to see the size of updates without manually looking at them first individually, as discussed here.
This is obviously aimed at iPhone and iPad users, but Mac users can also check the size of Mac App Store updates before downloading and installing them too.
Whether you’d like to know the download size of a software update before you begin to update a particular app, or you’re trying to work with download speed constraints and tight bandwidth situations, or you’re working with an iOS device with very small amounts of available storage, this should be a helpful tip for many iPhone and iPad users.
If you know of any other methods to get the size of App Store updates before installing them in iOS, share with us in the comments!
