[jurip]

You can disable that (Settings → Apps → App Store → Offload Unused Apps.)

It's a nice feature, but it would be even nicer if you could pin some apps to prevent their offloading even if you haven't used them in ages.

[joshstrange]

> but it would be even nicer if you could pin some apps to prevent their offloading even if you haven't used them in ages.

That change would make _viable_ for me at all, right now it's next to useless.

Currently iOS will offload apps that provide widgets (like Widgetsmith) even when I have multiple Widgetsmith widgets on my 1st and 2nd homescreens, I just never open the app (I don't need to, the widgets are all I use). One day the widgets will just be black and clicking on them does nothing. I have to search for Widgetsmith and then make the phone re-download it. So annoying.

Also annoying is you can get push notifications from offloaded apps. Tapping on the notification does _nothing_ no alert, no re-download, just nothing. Again, you have to connect the dots and redownload it yourself.

This "feature" is very badly implemented. If they just allowed me to pin things and added some better UX (and logic for the widget issue) it would be much better.

[jurip]

Yeah. We have a 112 app in Finland, for making emergency calls and relaying your location. Maybe it's been made at least partially unnecessary by phone network features, but anyway. It's one app I absolutely never ever use except when someday I'll be in an emergency and will want to use it and then it'll be offloaded.

[pimlottc]

Definitely, I had this problem on an old iPad where it would often decide to unload my password manager...