Clearing the cache of the iPhone can be useful to make us have more storage space, especially in those versions where there is not much available. It can be good to delete it from time to time for various reasons, so in this article we will explain how to do it delete the cache from your iPhone.
The culprit is caching, something that's nice to have, but to the right extent, as when it's very full it can be more of a nuisance than a help.
The way to clear the cache is very simple, as well as beneficial, which is why today we are going to focus on it.
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What is the Cache?
Cache is a form of storage through which it is possible save data from apps or the system itself for any future references.
Thanks to the cache any application must not read again in an external location, since it has everything it needs in that memory to function properly. This way applications start faster and run faster.
It is memory that is stored and not controlled by the user, without really knowing what goes to the cache and what doesn't, as the processes of the apps themselves decide. This means that there is less and less room for other things, making it so that, in very extreme cases, this leaves no room for anything else.
Clear the Cache in the iPhone apps
Let's see what we need to do to delete the data of an application that we have on the iPhone.
- The first thing we're going to do is go in Settings then click General.
- Next, we click Memory for iPhone.
- After a few seconds while the phone calculates the current storage state, we go down to the list of applications and select the one we want to clear the cache.
- On the page of this application, we select Delete app.
- Then we press again to confirm the choice and that's it.
This is how we can remove the app and everything that generates the cache, there is no other alternative.
If instead of pressing this option, we click Uninstall app and the cache data will be kept in case we need to reinstall it, so it's not feasible if we need more storage space inside our iPhone terminal.
It's a bit of a hassle to have to reinstall the same app we deleted if we really want it, but it's the way we can clear the data storage of an application that takes up a lot of space. In this guide, we show you the SSD types, formats and compatibility you need to take into account to expand the capacity of your devices.
Empty the Safari Cache
Where more cache is generated is in the browser on the phone itself. Safari it saves infinite data about all the places we visit with it and thus an amount of junk is generated which in some cases may even surprise us.
We can carry out this task in two different ways. In one we will also delete the browsing history, so it is useful to know this before using it in case we don't want it. In that case it is better to move on to the second option.
This first option deletes, as we have already told you, the browsing history and it does this:
- Go to Settings and we go to the section Safari.
- Then a little further down we will see Clear history and site data where we can click.
- Once we press we have to confirm in the pop-up window that appears and then the action will be performed in its entirety.
With this way that we have just seen, everything related to any type of Safari data will be deleted to facilitate navigation, including, as we have already told you, the browsing history.
But it may happen that we do not want that history to be deleted and therefore in the way we will see now, only the browsing data will be deleted, although the process may take a little longer than in the previous case, but the truth is that the simplicity is still the norm in this type of business.
The steps to follow are these:
- We walked in Settings and we go to the section Safari as in the previous case.
- Basically we see Advanced where we click.
- So we have to select Website data.
- Next, after all the data has been loaded, which can take several seconds, we will see how much cache is stored on each website.
- So we need to click Erase data which is an option that we will identify at the end of the whole.
This is how we need to delete browsing data, but the history will be preserved, as we may consider that one of the options is not feasible.
Whatever our choice, as soon as you run them, we will see that in many cases the storage will undergo a radial change.
What are the benefits?
The main advantage is that of conservation, since if we have spent years with our iPhone and we have never deleted anything we can get a lot of extra space.
Additionally, these types of are taken into consideration junk files and on many occasions they can cause problems in certain applications and also in Safari, slowing the loading of certain websites or other similar errors.
By deleting this data, it will all be uploaded again and there will be no interference between them, unless we go back years without deleting it.
If we want to have performance as close as possible to the maximum fluidity of the iPhone, we must delete this type of file, from time to time, so as not to have insufficient storage space and not to have any kind of problem due to corrupted data.
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