Developers can now create larger apps and games for iOS 18 and tvOS 18

As we reported last month, developers had been complaining about the Apple TV SDK, which only lets apps and games permanently store 500KB of data. Unfortunately, it’s unclear whether this limit has also changed, as Apple hasn’t updated the documentation page about it.

Even so, allowing apps to use more on-demand resources will certainly benefit console-level games coming to iOS and tvOS.

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Anybody else having problems once the metadata cache amounts to roughly 1GB? I’ve found that for some movies and shows the metadata kind of freezes and is immune to manual changes. I fixed this in the past by clearing all metadata but it’s quite tedious if you want various metadata localizations for different content which you then have to reconfigure. I wonder if tvOS 18 will bring improvements in this regard.