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Content caching

Your Mac caches data like a squirrel stores its nuts!

Software updates can be very big. The direct download of the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 update was three gigabytes, while the same month’s iOS download was a whopping 4.17GB. That’s a lot when you just have one device to update, let alone multiple Macs or iOS devices. Wouldn’t it be great if you could download something once and then share it with all the other devices that need it? And wouldn’t it be great if you could do the same for app updates, iCloud data and Apple Books?

Say hello to content caching.

What is content caching?

Content caching speeds up software updates and iCloud downloads by keeping

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