Web apps have taken over the last few years. Many of the apps we use on a daily basis are basically just a web wrapper at this point, at least on our computers, so web apps are just being honest about it and living inside your browser. One advantage of them is that they don't take up as much storage space, but that doesn't necessarily mean they don't have any storage space at all. If you're using Safari on a Mac, web apps will have more space to store data and files.
Apple has announced some changes to its Storage Policy that will apply to all browsers on iOS and Safari on Mac. Most of the changes are for developers and won't directly affect you, but there is one change you might want to keep in mind, and that's how much storage browsers can take up. Basically, Apple says that browser apps and web apps that are added to the home screen (in the case of iOS) and the dock (in the case of macOS) can take up about 60% of your disk space. If it's just a website or web app that you visit occasionally or only have a bookmark, the website limit will be much smaller, at 20% of your disk space. Until now, Safari limited web apps to about 1 GB of storage, and Safari would ask to allow more storage up to 200 MB, depending on the need.
The new limit is based on the storage space a device has, so it could potentially be in the hundreds of gigabytes, assuming your device has that much storage. That's exactly what browsers like Google Chrome allow — websites can take up up to 60% of your storage, though in Chrome's case, that's reduced to 5%. Apple's app is different in that websites can only take up all the space if they're logged in or on your phone's home screen. The limit doesn't apply to files downloaded or saved to an external folder.
These changes will be released as part of the upcoming operating system updates to iOS 17 and macOS 14, which are set to be released to iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers later this year.
Information source: howtogeek.com
