Apple always wants our applications as well as the operating system of our device, be it iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, to be updated to the latest version. For this, it has been introducing different functions in recent years, so that we let the device itself be in charge of doing it.
However, many are the users who prefer to update the applications manually, either because your device space is limited or because they want to know first-hand what are the news that the update offers us, although some developers do not include that information and limit themselves to listing previous news.
iOS puts at our disposal a series of information in the form of icons in front of the name of the application to inform us of its status. On the one hand we find the icon of a cloud with a down arrow, icon that indicates that the application has been partially removed from our device, conversing the data, because We have not used it for more than 30 days.
This function can be deactivated through the iOS settings, however, it is an indication that some of the applications that we have installed on our computer, we haven't used them in a long time, so it is convenient to delete them if we want our springboard to show us the applications that we really use and free up uselessly occupied space.
Another of the icons that show us the status of the applications is a blue dot in front of apps. This blue point indicates that the application has been updated to a new version, either manually or automatically.
Thanks to her, we can know at all times, which are the updated applications, when we have activated the automatic updates function. This blue dot in front of the name of the applications is a function that is also available in macOS.
