iPads and the 32GB bottleneck... FIXED (for a year or two!)
32GB is quite a lot, really. 32,000 Megabytes, or 32,000,000,000 bytes of information. give or take some rounding errors. But it's actually a problem in the iPad world. You see, iPads are kept far longer than iPhones. It's not unusual for someone's main iPad to be five or six years old, they just carry on doing the job they've done for so long. So keeping the software updated year on year is a larger project than on phones, where people normally upgrade after three or four years. Over The Air updates are wonderful, of course. No need to do anything except say 'Install' when Apple auto-downloads and offers the iPadOS update. Except in the modern era, when iPadOS 26 minor updates can still "need up to 12.5GB" in order to unpack and install in-place, on the iPad directly. With a modern iPad with 128GB or 256GB of storage, this isn't a problem. But for iPads of a certain age, in this case six years (2020), launched with a 32GB storage option, these la...