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App bundle and App Thinning

The download size shown on the App Store is far smaller than your Xcode archive. How does App Thinning cut the size down?

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App Thinning cuts size through slicing (a variant that carries only the architecture and resolutions a device needs) and on-demand resources, and bitcode is deprecated. That's why the download is smaller than the archive.

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