LIRE and I CLOUD Back Up Confusion

By Andrew, 26 November, 2022

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello All:

I was looking through my I cloud back up settings when I came across some strange info regarding LIRE and the file size for my back up. This is in settings>I cloud. When looking at the last back up file size, 114.15GB, I noticed that LIRE back up size is 111.35GB. This is by far and away the largest app back up in my list. It is even bigger than face book at nearly 300mb. I do not know why this is the case? Is there some setting that I have on in the LIRE app that is storing data? The app on the app store is only listed at a 66MB download, so I have no idea how my lire back up info shows 111GB. Any clarification would be appreciated.

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By Sebby on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 07:49

That does sound disproportionate, yes. It sounds like somehow caches are being backed up too or something. To clarify are you using lire in iCloud for sync, or is this just iCloud backup data and you're using some other, or no other, sync? Maybe your first port of call is the caching settings, and in particular the options to delete all cached full text, images, and icons. Make sure, too, that the option to download images is off in the accessibility settings. If you don't actually need to cache full text ahead of time, give thoughtt to not doing so, specially if you keep unread articles around for a long time.