How does this trick for freeing up space on iPhones actually work?

Ricko · 25 Jan 2017 at 13:39

Went from 6.5GB to 21GB :-/
iPhone 6+ 64GB

SupraWez · 25 Jan 2017 at 14:17

1gb to 3.1gb

a1ex2001 · 27 Jan 2017 at 11:28

Went from 1.61GB to 4.29GB free, how is this not available as an app? Not wanting to rant but that is flaming ridiculous!

SupraWez · 27 Jan 2017 at 11:35

a1ex2001 said:
Went from 1.61GB to 4.29GB free, how is this not available as an app? Not wanting to rant but that is flaming ridiculous!

I think there should be an option under settings to clear cache or something along those lines.

a1ex2001 · 27 Jan 2017 at 12:09

SupraWez said:
I think there should be an option under settings to clear cache or something along those lines.

Clearly, it's madness that aps can eat up 3-4GB+ of storage and you can't clear it yet this little rick clears it out with no adverse effect on the phone/apps in question. Still the likely hood of apple doing anything about it is slim to none!

bimbleuk · 27 Jan 2017 at 12:34

I was curious so looked on the CCleaner website

"Unfortunately CCleaner is unable to be used on iOS devices, including the Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. This is due to a sandboxing requirement introduced by Apple."

Duke · 6 Feb 2017 at 20:42

a1ex2001 said:
Clearly, it's madness that aps can eat up 3-4GB+ of storage and you can't clear it yet this little rick clears it out with no adverse effect on the phone/apps in question. Still the likely hood of apple doing anything about it is slim to none!

Indeed, it makes people think they need more storage than they do.

Spit · 7 Feb 2017 at 18:43

I keep doing this and I pressed the home button when it was trying to free the space. Some app icons were ghosted out and cleaning was written across them.

Lisapete · 10 Feb 2017 at 13:46

277.5Mb to 1.19GB

Not bad, some incons said cleaning

lauy · 11 Feb 2017 at 11:25

Worked for me. Just under 100mb and now over 3GB free

Angilion · 12 Feb 2017 at 03:10

a1ex2001;30443387 said:
Went from 1.61GB to 4.29GB free, how is this not available as an app? Not wanting to rant but that is flaming ridiculous!

It's far more profitable for Apple to sell people a solution to a problem that shouldn't really exist (preferably involving them paying a lot of money for new hardware) than to allow the solution to be available as an app (which would at best get Apple a couple of pounds per customer, once).

keri-206 · 13 Feb 2017 at 16:07

also worked for moi, from 5gb to 8gb free space

Minstadave · 15 Feb 2017 at 22:36

Angilion said:
It's far more profitable for Apple to sell people a solution to a problem that shouldn't really exist (preferably involving them paying a lot of money for new hardware) than to allow the solution to be available as an app (which would at best get Apple a couple of pounds per customer, once).

Part of me thinks this has been intentionally overlooked to sell very cheap flash for crazy inflated prices.

It's been wider publicised and not seen any comment from Apple. Clearly they have an issue with excessive caching and a working fix.