"...Golden Gate needed a whopping 17GB more space on the M1 MacBook Air, thanks to a mandatory multi-gigabyte language model download that kicks in automatically the first time you connect a freshly restored Golden Gate Mac to the Internet."
This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been.
My phone is on iOS 26, and even with Apple Intelligence turned off, there's ~13GB made unusable. My phone ran out of space while recording a bike trip, and yet the model I have no use for remained.
Maybe macOS 26 was lot bigger... but I went straight from Sequoia to Golden Gate and freed up like 30 GBs. I didn't have enough disk space to download the update prior, so the extra 30 GB wasn't that... but could've been caches I guess. I assumed it was dropping Intel?
Unfortunately I don't know yet because I updated for Xcode 27 + iPhone dev, so having an iPhone plugged in 24/7 is heavily spewing the results towards "much worse".
If I can still reply mid-to-late next week I'll let you know.
It doesn't seem much worse to me if at all. Not a noticeable difference. That said, the laptop is only a year and a half old, with the battery cycle count at 314.
I also wonder if I'll have a "oh, the battery life _is_ much worse" moment soon, but not yet!
ProfessorLayton · · focus · HN ↗
This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been.
My phone is on iOS 26, and even with Apple Intelligence turned off, there's ~13GB made unusable. My phone ran out of space while recording a bike trip, and yet the model I have no use for remained.
samtheprogram · · focus · HN ↗
als0 · · focus · HN ↗
samtheprogram · · focus · HN ↗
If I can still reply mid-to-late next week I'll let you know.
samtheprogram · · focus · HN ↗
I also wonder if I'll have a "oh, the battery life _is_ much worse" moment soon, but not yet!