Hi Two friends are using android phones and you could call them power users (in the last few weeks they have been logging an average of 50 to 60 observations a day) and they only use their phones. This is the current state of the app BlockquotePhone Poco M2 Pro Andoid Version 10 QKQ1.191215.00…

[image] ram_k: What is the correct process to proceed - reinstall app @ram_k My advice is to upgrade to version Android iNaturalist version 1.23.18 (507) or higher. It reduces the amount of Userdata. Only the 100 most recent photos are stored, number 101 is deleted: ‘’ hold on to 100 of the m…

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I tried it but it did not work :-( Still 17.71 GB userdata… My apologisch but a few years ago this really worked for Android. Remove cache does not help, saves 1 GB.

I logged 7Aug Out en In with iPhone SE2020 and 2200MB cache and iNaturalist 3.1.1. was using 2.3GB and after 2 days use it is still only 48,7MB so it worked this week for me.

On Android there is a “delete all app data” option on the App Settings. I will try that tomorrow though

I didn’t think the photos count as App data - I usually delete photos manually. Since the only photos I take with my phone are for inat observations its easy to select them by day anbd delete large bunches at a time. I believe the cache is more about storing thumbnails and species names and the sor…

Thanks, One of the people I was helping found that he had 14GB in his Trash :-) - clearing that up freed a lot of space. I think cleaning thumbnails and species names etc should not be a big deal as the info wi;; “always” be available in their own account in Inaturalist

It used to take up 1GB. I uninstalled and reinstalled then it went down to 200MB. I think we need a more permanent solution.

[image] ram_k: Is it that all the images uploaded to iNaturalist through the app now also residing on the phone memoiry (duplicating the photos the have in their gallery) ? if so would deleting this iNaturalist cache also delete the images on iNaturalist ? (i suspect not so) what is the downsid…

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