I recently discovered that my iPhone uses 20GB of storage for my iNaturalist account. I am not very tech minded although moderately able to follow when things are explained. Why is using the App so data hungry and are there simple things I can do to reduce the proportion of my storage. I use iNat…

Check another post about storage used by the (android) app. Maybe add iOs in the title of this topic cause Android has its own topic: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/limit-cache-size-or-allow-cache-clearing-for-apps/2059 Logout/Login or reboot should work on an iPhone: https://forum.inaturalist.or…

This issue was supposed to be fixed. Make sure you have the most current version. Meanwhile logging out then in again should clear the cache.

[image] charlie: This issue was supposed to be fixed. Are you sure for an iPhone? For Android it is, but the codebase for Android is not shared with the iPhone. I do not see this ticket closed: https://github.com/inaturalist/INaturalistIOS/issues/502 but for Android it is.

Yeah. my iphone app doesn’t do it any more. There was a thread about it a while back.

My iPhone storage used to be almost completely full. I still used iNaturalist through it by logging out in between observations so it would clear the cache. I don’t have to do it that frequently anymore but it will clear the cache every time, so it should take up much much less than 20GB.

@davidhocken1 Can you add the version number of your iNaturalist app and a screen shot were we can see how much storage is used by this app.

[image] charlie: This issue was supposed to be fixed. Make sure you have the most current version. Meanwhile logging out then in again should clear the cache. I have version 3.1.1 and it uses 2GB while i hardly use it. I thought it got a bit better but it was not finally solved. Most effort w…

I make tons of observations and upload them manually. I never use auto sync. I’m sorry to hear the problem still exists for others. It is a big pain.

But wihch iphoone version do you have ? It is better that it was i think, althou my curernt phone has much more storage

Starting with version 3.1 ( see Version History here ), the iOS app was supposed to start reducing the amount of storage it took up. However, this only happens when the app is put into the background or standby - not if you close the app. By closing the app, I mean what’s shown in the beginning of thi…

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