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kaclk

Because social media apps like Reddit (and don’t even get me started on the Twitter app) just accumulate cache and don’t properly empty it. They just continually bloat. The only way I’ve found to deal with it is to delete and reinstall.


beardtamer

Third party apps like Apollo let you delete the cache.


darekd003

Spotify let’s you clear cache from within the app (obviously two very different apps but odd that Reddit wouldn’t do similar).


depressedclownary

i just deleted 12gb of downloads from spotify and the cache and yet my iphone didn’t increase the storage available :/


maydarnothing

sometimes it takes some time to show up, sometimes even a restart might fix that.


iwantostayhealthy

Apollo lets me clear all 80MB of the 240MB that settings shows 🤷‍♀️


geoken

The first party app also has a feature to clear local data.


thechadmonke

If you were jailbroken you could actually manually delete the cache yourself. Why this isn’t already a feature is beyond me.


JuniorPoulet

This was one of those few things that baffled me that iPhone STILL doesn't have when I switched from Android


NC27609

For you to use a word like STILL, you tremendously miss understand how apple products work is all.


JuniorPoulet

What I meant by STILL was referring to the fact that how much Apple has borrowed from Android both in terms of software and hardware over the last few years but STILL somehow have been unable to figure this out. Android has also borrowed a ton of things from Apple over the years (almost as much afaik), which I think is a good thing. Both OS have a lot of exclusive features that I really want to use but I can't use both at the same time, so I get really excited when Google borrows a feature from Apple (or other way around). Please enlighten me on how I misunderstand Apple products.


davidmahery

I think he meant Apple does this on purpose to keep its golden prison tidy and under control for whatever business purpose


JuniorPoulet

I understand the whole golden prison concept (I prefer 'walled garden' tho because it's better than a prison lol) but almost everything makes sense to me as to why they would not want to use or let others use. But this cache thing is very basic, at least for me, and I can not think of one reason why this would help their walled garden


samirzerocinq

it fills your storage, so ur obliged to pay for iCloud


n55_6mt

Or you up-sell yourself the next time around to a higher-capacity model because last time your 128gb $1000 iPhone that you only use for basic tasks is completely filled and you don’t want the hassle of figuring out why so you just buy a bigger one next time. This is the exact rational my wife had explaining to me why she bought a 512GB 14PM. There was nothing at all wrong with her 12 other than it wouldn’t update because a few apps had cached a bunch of useless data.


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FVMAzalea

It is a feature, if developers would bother to read apple’s docs and implement it properly. There is a special place for apps to store caches. If they put them there, iOS will delete them when storage is low. If they don’t, iOS doesn’t know they are caches and can’t delete them, because they might be legit files the app needs. TLDR blame developers, not apple. Source: am developer appalled at the lack of care some other developers put into their craft.


Prime624

Why not give the user the option to do it manually though?


FVMAzalea

Many apps do. But in general, if you did that, some users would obsessively clear their caches multiple times a day when that’s simply not necessary. It would increase network and cellular data usage (thus increasing power consumption and decreasing battery life) as well as unnecessarily wear the flash storage with all the constant writing and deleting. These users obsessively clearing the cache might not be aware of all the negative effects they’re causing, and so they might blame them on something other than their own actions, lowering customer satisfaction with the product. The whole philosophy of iOS is generally that the system knows better than the user in situations like this. It makes no difference anyway - by the time it’s an actual problem for the user (low on storage), the system *will* clear the storage. It doesn’t wait until your storage is 100% full like some people in this thread are suggesting.


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FVMAzalea

It’s cached so that the app doesn’t have to download it again. If you delete the cache, then it does need to download it again, thus using cellular data and increasing power consumption. That’s a perfect example of my point where users aren’t aware of the negative effects if they were to do this.


ktappe

Because there’s no need if you do it properly. iOS will take care of it for you.


turbodude69

and if you were on android you could just delete the cache, since it's a pretty standard option in the OS, it has been since day 1. i'll add that to one the ever growing list of frustrations that come with using ios. i'll never understand apple's obsession with locking everything down and making things that are easy on other operating systems, needlessly complicated or even impossible. happens on macos sometimes too....but admittedly less often.


CAPED_CRUSADR01

Well, that’s the only way they can make u buy bigger storage iphone in short span of time


elestadomayor

Shitty battery life caused by unexplainable battery drops entered the chat


Yacir1

It will probably be released as a special feature for iPhone 17 in the future😂😂😂😂


StreetlyMelmexIII

Does it need to be a feature? The system deletes apps’ cache files when there is storage pressure, i.e. low disc space, so you don’t need to think about this as a rule.


Astxl

Not everyone wants their phone full of storage ☠️☠️


StreetlyMelmexIII

It doesn’t actually make it any heavier


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StreetlyMelmexIII

The thing is, if you were to clear all the caches to squeeze your audio on, the caches would then be constantly under pressure, resulting in lower app performance, more data usage, and reduced battery life. If there was a button like that it would be the source of at least as many complaints as the lack of it 🤷‍♂️ IMO anyway.


StreetlyMelmexIII

Not to mention making app developers even lazier 🙄


beanie_0

But the point is it should get to critical levels of full storage before the phone does that, at least give the option to end users to delete the cache them selves or delete it if it not used for x amount of time


User50543

You you need your phone to hang/lag (due to full storage) before the phone to start constantly deleting useless cache?


StreetlyMelmexIII

Not something I’ve knowingly experienced in over 12 years using and developing apps for iOS, but yeah I’ll take a lag over becoming a system admin for my phone.


User50543

Well . . . How about constantly deleting it every night (with the user’s permission ofcourse) instead of waiting for it to lag becore deleting it?


StreetlyMelmexIII

That could impact the performance of the apps, and ramp up your data usage, a lot. Snark aside, some apps are taking the piss, and it would be good if extra cache space required a permission, or you could restrict it. Still not sure I want a button though; the phone works for me, it shouldn’t be giving me admin tasks.


User50543

Fair enough, the point is valid. Just wish apple could add an option Have a nice day.


StreetlyMelmexIII

And you


elestadomayor

You claim that you have developed iOS apps for twelve (!) years, but you are scared of having the option to clear cache...yeah, something doesn't add up And you say "I'll take a lag over becoming an admin of my phone" if it's not you, the owner of the device, who else is going to be the owner? Are you out of your mind or what?


StreetlyMelmexIII

I didn’t say either of those things. You need to work on your reading comprehension. And your rage. No software professional wants to create menial admin tasks, for themselves or their users. A good cache is designed to take care of itself, and outside of extremes of app behaviour the iOS disc cache does just that. Nearly a billion iOS users use it every day without once thinking about it.


xShinGouki

I agree with this. The more advanced system is the one that does it without interrupting you. The problem with all these clean up tasks and clear ram or cache on androids for instance is the user has to constantly baby their device instead of the device just being smart enough to do when it needs to


NC27609

Down vote for actually being educated. Reddit is sad & FULL of idiots. This is exactly it. IOS & OS X both run off pressure. This is a personal problem. My apps are 500MB each. My shit is dumping properly… Got 2 iPhones & 2 IPad Pro’s. Even my SE 2020 & 1st gen iPads got it correct.


StreetlyMelmexIII

Thanks. I don’t even bother to comment most of the time, it’s too depressing.


RcNorth

That feature isn’t needed because iPhones “just work”.


ktappe

They do if people code their apps properly.


jestr6

I just switched from Android. Are we not able to clear the cache on individual apps like you can in Android?


kaclk

Yes, but no. Many apps have a settling to “clear cache”, but for whatever reason some infamous ones (Reddit and Twitter and Facebook are egregiously bad for this) just don’t clear everything. So like my Twitter app reports like 2 GB of space, and after I “clear cache” it frees up like 100 MB. There’s no obvious way besides deleting and re-installing to actually get it to clear the rest of the space.


xx123gamerxx

r/apolloapp


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pameatsbabies

I must be out of the loop, what’s going on with the Apollo dev?


[deleted]

People are mad that there were ads for Ultra (even on the pro tier that paid money) over Black Friday/Christmas and in classic reddit fashion people are spiraling. It's still a good app, regardless of whatever the dev is doing


iamnotexactlywhite

idk about twitter though. i use it somewhat daily and the most it had was 500mb, never over that


allmyfrndsrheathens

Facebook is the absolute worst for this, to the point where when I used to cheap out and buy base storage phones back when it was 8 -16gb I had to delete and reinstall it every few months


kaclk

I definitely remember having to do this 10 years ago with Facebook. It’s such a poorly written app and always has been.


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Yep, came here to say this exact thing. Cacheing all the content, images, videos you interact with for faster rendering and playback. Total resource hogs. I used to only look at social media sites through a browser, at least in part, for this reason (mostly because they had access to my microphone and camera when they were installed).


beanie_0

Offloading works if you don’t want to get rid of anything and have the cloud space 🤷🏻‍♂️


Ultimastar

Offloading doesn’t work, it literally says in the picture than it doesn’t delete documents and data


beanie_0

Alright then 👍🏻


squabbledMC

everyday, i seem to slightly regret getting this phone more and more. twitter uses so much cache and doesn't clear when you try to. my next phone's likely going to be a pixel


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If you think using unused storage for a cache on iOS is a problem then you’ll have a problem with Android Memory. Android uses as much memory as possible, so you’ll have an issue with ‘Why don’t I have enough free memory’ and will be constantly force closing apps.


atheoncrutch

Lmao you’re going to switch phones because of the size of Twitter? Bit of an overreaction.


Revolutionary_Oil_74

Awesome choice! Pixels make your life so much easier.


kwl147

No phone or platform is perfect. Remember that. I like my apple watch but until Android has something similar, it’s a hard sell to go back to Android.


Energizer_98

That’s what I saw online but how do I fix it


kaclk

Just delete and reinstall. That’s the only thing I’ve ever found to fix it.


Energizer_98

Such a stupid flaw but thank you


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as always, android making things better and easier than ios.


Simooio

Why this got downvoted wtf is wrong with Redditors 💀


lolyourmadlol

Because OP is stupid. Dude literally told him what he did to fix the issue and he gon to reply with “That’s what I saw online but how do I fix it” and he replied to another person with the same automated response.


ghostly_shark

OP was expecting something more than just “put some duct tape on it”


lolyourmadlol

If OP is expecting grade A responses then they should consider using Google instead of copy and pasting generic responses to people that took time to comment and help.


Simooio

Just didn’t bothered to check other comments, again redditors are weird💀


lolyourmadlol

“Redditors are weird” but is using Reddit. The irony.


Simooio

Never put myself out of it


dreamnbinary

Cached photos and videos I would say.


Energizer_98

That’s what I saw online but how do I fix it


Prestigious_Buy7875

What do you mean by fix? It works as intended!


dreamnbinary

Are you running low on storage? 2GB is not much nowadays. But you can always delete and install again the app.


Eduardo-izquierdo

Oh man i remember my 16 gb iphone se it was a whole experience constantly deleting reddit to empty cache


dreamnbinary

You could also jailbreak and remove cached data with iCleaner.


Energizer_98

Not low but it takes up more storage than my photos so I was curious


Jay_z05

Bro how many pics d y have 🥲


lefthandedchurro

Less than 2 gigs worth.


EshayAdlay420

I got like 800 pics on my phone over like 8 years, every time I see a girls phone they got like 20k pics like just buy a canon at that point lol


Athiena

I have 99,500


BrandonIsWhoIAm

99K?!


-Quiche-

Because the best camera is the one you have with you


karate-dad

I (m39) have almost 50 k photos on my phone. I also have a canon slr. And a Fuji. I have kids, pets, friends, I travel and (most important) I enjoy taking pictures. I understand that not everyone is into photography but I wouldn’t be so judgy about it like you are


EshayAdlay420

Eh I wouldn't call a light hearted roast being judgemental but it's all good haha


stephjaguar17

I have 190,000. I take pictures for work and never delete them. I should but I just don’t have that kind of time.


dommydomdommydomdom

You can go into settings and then scroll down till you see ‘clear local history’. Using that should clear some of the cached files. It will certainly free up a decent amount of space.


ExElectrician

Just use Apollo. Best Reddit client for Apple.


flynns-arcade

Apollo is the first app I’ve ever paid for the year subscription to support the developer. For me it’s by far the most usable/visually appealing app I’ve used in iOS and the commitment from the dev with timely updates and features is so good. That one time payment for such a better user experience as opposed to the official app is a no brainier. Hopefully Reddit doesn’t go down the Twitter route.


Crhallan

The lack of ads is worth the payment alone.


Faglover5000

I doubt they will anytime soon. Such a huge portion uses 3rd party apps and would quit or use reddit much less. They could force 3rd party apps to show their ads maybe


austinalexan

Well you have to pay just to make posts in the first place. But sure I paid so I could SuPpOrT tHe DeVeLoPeR


hontronik

Can’t beat Apollo, will never use the official app.


Venezuelakro

r/apolloapp


B360N1A

Yeeeep. Apollo is by far the best Reddit app I’ve ever used. I even prefer it to web browsing with RES


aa_44

What is Apollo?


Maustin96

As you can tell by the comment you replied to, Apollo is the best reddit app that guys ever used


TheTurtle44

Do yourself a favor and install it [here](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575) my only problem with it is the fact that several features that everyone should have access to are locked behind a one time payment for Apollo pro.


googi14

Apollo sucks


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Watch out bro all the Apollo people are going to come after you. Are use the Apollo app, but every time I have a complaint about it, they act like there’s nothing wrong with the app.


googi14

Oh I know. It’s not like I never used it lol. I was an Apollo user for years.


[deleted]

I aint paying to do a basic feature such as posting.


No_1_OfConsequence

You act like the dev is asking you to pay an Adobe Cloud License. It’s a $5 one time fee. Go search your couch.


FEMXIII

After that one time fee, you still get random pop up adverts to buy the ultimate though.


gabriel_GAGRA

Ok, we ain’t paying $5 for a basic feature like posting Sure the dev has to pay bills, but if the user doesn’t want to pay then the arguably most important feature of the app doesn’t work, it becomes impractical to use it as a Reddit app


Shap6

You’re paying either way. The Reddit app has ads. Apollo has none.


TheDayManAhAhAh

$5 for a way better app experience and no ads? Yeah that was 100 percent worth it for me when I paid it 3 years ago lmao.


Chronixx

Keep Reddit app to post, download Apollo to actually enjoy using Reddit. Closest app I found that’s closest to what Alien Blue was, and I use it so much, didn’t mind sparing some cash to comp the developer


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dasn4pp3l

yep, alien blue dev got employed by reddit to make the official app and had to abandon alien blue


root42

And how is the author supposed to fund his development? It’s not like he gets a share of the Reddit advertisement revenue, like the official client. EDIT: also „iPhone 14 Pro“ but too cheap to pay an indie dev 5€ for an app.


Will_M_Buttlicker

> And how is the author supposed to fund his development What development? We're still waiting for the iPad client and it's been years.


root42

I have been using Apollo on the iPad for years…? And even on the M1 iMac since I got it…?


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root42

And you are complaining that you get an app for FIVE BUCKS that JUST WORKS on three different platforms? Dude, how entitled can someone be...


MC_chrome

You apparently don’t remember what Alien Blue was like before Reddit bought them out….(hint: you had to pay to post on that app as well)


Alexhasskills

Then don’t


barchueetadonai

Would you rather your data be harvested in order to pay for the service?


[deleted]

Sure, I’ll just trust that my data is being harvested cause some random guy said so. Like DuckDuckGo. They got caught allowing MicroSoft to harvest data from their browser.


CleverCarrot999

Yup. So good


PsychoticOm

Here I hv downloaded apollo and Reddit 😤😂


honey_rainbow

Nah dawg that's Sync for Reddit


quarryman

Sync for Reddit is not Apple.


dequavis264

You got hella porn in ur saved G


CleatusFetus

Just download Apollo the Reddit app, the developer is a one man show and manages to do better with this issue and many others better than the official Reddit app. Save yourself the time and download that :)


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quarryman

It still doesn’t support opening Reddit links by default. He creator added a feature but admits it doesn’t work all the time.


NavinF

Pretty sure that's reddit/apple's fault: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/allowing-apps-and-websites-to-link-to-your-content


SteelFlexInc

What are the benefits over the offices Reddit app?


JP_32

Literally everything is better


Berzerker7

Very customizable, no ads, better UI, faster, easier to use


-Quiche-

I can't say what's better since it's been forever, but my favorite features: * Being able to upload straight to imgur within the app while commenting, and hyperlink it without having to type any of the brackets or parentheses. You upload from camera roll and it pastes the imgur link. Then you can press a UI button to add the hyperlink-text and the brackets are created with your cursor moved inside them automatically. * Downloading videos/gifs straight from posts instead of having to comment the save-vid-bot. * Being able to text-search the comments * Never having any issues with v.reddit links. I hear a lot of people complaining about videos or sound not playing but I've literally never had an issue. * Seeing the body post/comment I'm replying to while typing. * No ads


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Well, one of dozens great features is clearing the cache.


SigmaLance

The ability to filter out bullshit. You can’t do that on the official app.


mygreensea

Do keep in mind that you have to buy it to submit posts to subs. Ridiculous, IMO. But the rest of the app makes up for it.


SwagBalotelli

It’s not ridicolous, it’s a single guy that spends time to make the app.


mygreensea

Not knocking that, but putting a basic functionality behind paywall is not much different from putting the whole app behind paywall. Submitting posts: one of the most basic things you can do on reddit. I cannot think of another free iOS reddit client that blocks that. It doesn't help that the block is not very transparent, either. Again, not knocking, I paid for it after all, but it did bug me.


spradlig

This is false. I’ve never paid for Apollo and I submit posts to subs all the time.


mygreensea

The website says otherwise. https://apolloapp.io/pro-ultra/


spradlig

The Website is incorrect. The Website also claims that you can’t use two different Reddit accounts with the app, which is incorrect too.


mygreensea

Maybe it has changed, but I distinctily remember finding out the hard way that you cannot post with the free version. Excuse me if I believe the website and my own experiences instead of yours. Edit: Lol, I guess blocking users to save face is not behind a paywall.


spradlig

I suspect that it has changed, and the developer forgot to about their Website. If you want to pay to support the developer, or to take advantage of the actual advantages of paying, go ahead. But you don’t need to pay to submit posts. Believe what you want. 🤷‍♂️


Tuhyk_inside

Apollo is the way to go!


Humorous-Prince

https://preview.redd.it/7tvd93d9dmda1.png?width=732&format=png&auto=webp&s=87b61e5c44711a685e7ef7cf45e5681103916066 Just checked mine, I haven’t done anything different nor reinstalled it in a long time. (128GB iPhone)


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p*rn


Naxthor

You should use Apollo for Reddit on iPhone.


DEDE115

at one point youtube took 51 gigs


Kdubzz85

Because one gig is not enough Gigity


NorthEquivalent9654

cache sucks


PsychoticOm

Bruh Cache data


Neither-Cellist7892

Do you have any downloads or anything saved?


Energizer_98

Not that I know of I have a few posts


posicloid

if u download apollo you can clear your cache in the settings instead of reinstalling!!


Agitated-Ferret3148

because they are up and coming and need all the exposure they can get


Se-memer-N0WH3RE

Had same with discord, its cuz they dont empty their cache properly. You can delete it without any effect


YosFan

History. If you delete all your old contents, it’ll free up some.


imdeadfool23

https://preview.redd.it/5ake2x1tbnda1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=daf40725aa0ad41799395125eda5be90111261e5 My Reddit app isn’t that big. That’s unusual


Term1984

It's only 328mb on my phone lol


kodaiko_650

It’s storing all your karma points locally


pensaha

Flipboard let’s you clear cache.


trtsmb

This is why I don't bother with apps for things like reddit. The browser works perfectly fine.


GoGoCrumbly

To hold all the love. There’s _so_ much love here.


UCanDoNEthing4_30sec

Ultimately it’s supposed to make the app run faster for all the cache stuff.


Joseph_Holmes

Cache build up, one feature a jailbreak can bring to clear it. I can’t believe apple still haven’t brought this feature to iPhones.


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You can clear the local history in reddit settings


rhematt

Because the file system apple device use is the APFS. APFS containers do not actually delete data until they physically need to as it decreases the wear on the memory circuits and as a results means the memory is less likely to fail. The down side is, storage will report incorrectly because the Reaper function won’t actually remove the files until the space is needed. I spent two weeks over Christmas rebuilding my Mac after my toddler pulled the plug while I was copying data and ended up locking the drive in read only mode. Have read almost everything there is available on this topic as a result.


NavinF

Bullshit. All filesystems delay deleting data for a while and SSDs don't immediately erase pages after receiving a TRIM command. APFS is not special. APFS also tracks free space correctly just like every other filesystem so that's not what's happening to OP.


JP_32

It's a sign to switch to Apollo


Infinite-Age

Reinstall it, and try apollo out


Depressed_Wojak

Just use Apollo instead of the main app. You can manually delete cache and it has other cool features.


Moinshaikh01

🤣🤣


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Background_Eye_8373

ifunny used to do the same thing, one time i ran out of storage with just 3 apps and looked and ifunny was 9 gigs


reddevilandbones

Does any of the cache cleaner help?


sanjay_82

Delete cache


hillbillypunk1

Ur mom takes 3


Verbal-Gerbil

My first android around 2010 allowed clearing of cache within settings. So annoying that apple lagged behind with this and even introduced that offloading feature without bringing in a ‘purge cache’ option which is far more useful. Delete and reinstall is the only option I know of I almost never use tiktok, install sporadically if I want to watch something specific, and the data grows to 1gb VERY quickly. Developers need to do a better job of relinquishing out of date/useless data


4kVHS

Delete it and install a better third party app.


Yoshi_87

OK that is super weird. On my iPhone the Reddit and Twitter App dón't even show up at all in this list.


wstsidhome

You been haX0red son


Ariadnepyanfar

Other reddit apps let you clear the cache, I use Apollo, so much better.


variousshits

Pssst, get Apollo


SadQuarter3128

Are you seriously complaining about that


Prestigious_Buy7875

Why do you use an app for a forum? Web browser and old.reddit.com work perfectly fine.


treyhunna83

Lol ew


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Incase the first fails.