The iPhone and I believe also the Android app cache all your pictures from your observations (in addition to saving the photos on your photo roll). For casual users that’s no big deal but for ‘power users’ the app can quickly swell to several gigabites in size. Currently the only way to clear the ca…

2 Gigabytes i wish my Inaturalist TAKES UP 15!!! Thank heavens i have an SD card.

Mine is 15.24 GB thats not normal? Correction i guess it takes up 16.27 GBs? [Screenshot_20200515-003721_Settings]

Not normal. Please follow the instructions above and send us some log data.

I’d like to point out that logging out then back in does not help on iPhone. My app was taking 11 gigs and making my phone unable to update. I logged out and in yesterday to clear the cache, it was then taking less than 100 mb of space. Today it’s back to 11 gigs. If there is not way to clear this…

note that as long as everything you need to upload is uploaded… you can uninstall the app then reinstall it and it should reset the cache. I’ve had to do that with other apps.

iNaturalist Android app 1.23.11 (500) Android 10 QKQ1.200512.002 Logout/Login does not help Total 17.91GB->17.69GB Clear the cache helps a bit, but Userdata is almost not changed. Clearing cache: Userdata: 17.66Gb->16.52GB Cache: 1.15Gb-> 3.06MB Remove all data really helps. Clear…

[image] kueda: So my question remains: does clicking “Clear cache” solve this problem for you folks? I’m particularly interested in answers from people for whom the app is taking up huge (500+ MB) amounts of space. I want to know whether that storage usage is coming from the “User data” line (ap…

User data exeeds the 17GB. I think it is a bit too much. Can cleaning User data for Android Xaomi-phones be included in this feature request or should I raise a new feature request: ‘’ [Limit User Data Size or Allow User Data Clearing for Android iNaturalist app without loosing the password]"( https…

Can I ask a dumb question? How do you “log out and back in”? When I touch the INat icon on my iPhone, it comes up without asking me to log in in any way. And if that isn’t working for many people, is there another trick?

Limit Cache Size or Allow Cache Clearing for Apps

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ahospers September 27, 2020, 8:10pm 36

It is Huge. 17,48 GB
…https://photos.app.goo.gl/KR9G3k32iaiZr9AU6

iNaturalist Grootte 20,2MB
Documenten 17,48 GB

iPone SE2020
iNaturalist 2.8.7 build 558
SDImageCache 11 files
Un-Uploaden 5,409 files 11GB
IMG_5734750×1334 98.5 KB

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