Clearing cache and junk on iPhone

By Moopie Curran, 2 November, 2022

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi,
In another forum topic, my topic about restarting the iPhone, someone mentioned it's not as easy to clear cache anymore. How does one go about clearing cache on the iPhone 14? Also, how do you clean junk. I used to use an app called magic phone cleaner, which I purchased, but it won't install on newer devices, which is a real shame, because it was so good, it would reclaim heaps of space. So what's the best way to clear cache, clean stupid temp files and junk, etc. I'd prefer to do it all on the phone itself, but I guess I could hook the phone up to my mac, albeit grudgingly, because that's kind of a pain, but I'll take any way to keep my phone clean. :)

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By Chris on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 08:19

As far as I know, you can't do this. The operating system is supposed to manage that for you, but since there's no user-facing way to do it, I think your only option is to make a backup, restore your device to factory defaults, and restore that backup. If that doesn't work, you may have to restore to defaults and set it up as a new device. Then again, the problem will most likely come back at some point, because cache data seems to build up over time.

By Bruce Harrell on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 08:19

I always just restart my iPhone, which you can now do with SIRI. Always seemed to work for me, although I never actually examined my caches after restarting. Even so, my phone seemed faster after each restart. Speeding up your phone is your goal, right?

By Moopie Curran on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 08:19

But I listen to A LOT of mp3 audiobooks, and when I read them, I delete them, so I want to make sure they're gone for good when I hit delete, and not floating around somewhere as cache. So essentially I want to reclaim storage.

By Chris on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 08:19

If an app is taking up an unusually large amount of storage and there's no way to free the space in the app, the only way I know of is to delete and install the app again.

By Sebby on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 08:19

Record a movie until you run out of space, triggering the cache deleter. Perfectly absurd, of course.

Or just accept that it's not intended that you should do it. Mother Apple forbids it! And in truth, it rarely actually represents a problem.

By Troy on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 08:19

I miss the cash cleaners such as memmory disk which I use to use all the time. As suggested above if an app is taking up a huge amounts of space (facebook is notorious for this especially if you watch a lot of videos) then just delete and reinstall.

By gailisaiah on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 08:19

I still have the Magic Cleaner app. Although I forget to use it to clean junk.