Apple’s iOS 9 will ask users if they want to delete apps to make room for the upgrade if their devices are short of space, then automatically select those marked for temporary elimination, according to online reports.

The new feature, revealed yesterday by several users of the iOS 9 preview now in developers’ hands, was another piece in a plan by Apple to avoid repeating the debacle of last year, when owners of iPhones and iPads with small storage allotments were unable to easily install iOS 8. Some had to laboriously remove apps or purge photo and music collections to free up enough room for iOS 8.

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iOS 9 includes several space-saving features to make sure customers with a small amount of storage — like a 16GB iPhone 6 — will be able to install the upgrade, including a just-revealed option to automatically delete apps.

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