iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos

With iOS 18.2, iPhone users in the European Union can fully delete a number of core apps, including the App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera, and...

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Will that ever come to the Americas?
- Nothing.
Can you also delete system32?
- just boot.ini
Can EU users install non-Safari browsers yet
- In theory, yes. Only problem is that we need a dev team willing to develop one. Mozilla won't do it if it's just for Europe apparently.
Man, I’m just hoping the touch screen issues go away on my 11
Sad UK noises
Maybe I can remove enough for 'my' iPad 6th Gen to have enough space to update now lmao
- Unlikely. Mobile OSes are shipped as images, meaning you can remove preinstalled apps from your user account but you can't free the storage they use.
  
  Yeah, but even without any files and no extra apps, the OS itself and the preinstalled apps use enough space for unpacking the downloaded image to fail. Maybe if I uninstall the preinstalled apps I'll have enough free space for the new image to be downloaded and unpacked properly. I doubt it tho. So basically, the 32 GB iPad is E-Waste because you can't update it due to Apples horrible space and update optimization.
And why can't I do that on Android?

Apple is slowly becoming (or being forced to be) more open than Google.
- I think it's similar to Disabling app on Android.
- You can do it on Android
Sad how surprised I am. It goes so much against Apple's practice and wants. Thank regulation.

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