Any way to make the iOS app use less disk space?

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Hi everyone,

Like many iPhone users… I have too small of an iPhone and am constantly running out of disk space. I don’t actually have that much on the phone, but with only a 16GB storage (and a huge percentage of that going to the OS itself) I’m constantly battling against disk space usage.

Currently I am so low on space on my phone that I can’t even update some apps I have installed that are themselves not even that big…like Slack. The updates fail due to low disk space. I’ve already deleted pretty much all user content, keeping less than 5 or 10 pictures on my photos at any given time. I always use Nextcloud to offload the photos so I can keep my phone storage to a minimum.

But lately Nextcloud has grown to become the biggest consumer of space on my phone, using over 300MB for “Documents & Data”. I have the local cache disabled, and I go in periodically and say “delete cache” and clear out the log file, but that only reduces the usage by a few MB. Over time the space burden of Nextcloud keeps growing and growing and I don’t understand the need for the app to be storing ANYTHING on the phone aside from my login info.

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Is there anything else I can do to make the app more storage efficient? Is this something that is on the developers’ roadmap at all?

Thanks!

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I have the same situation, but on my iPhone the app consumes more than 2,2 GB of space.

There are no offline files. I’ve cleared the cache. but nothing helped. I can’t find something that would explain the usage.

Does somebody have an idea?

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You probably already solved this but, this helped me to reduce the app size from several GB to 77 MB (Each of the following steps reduced the app size):

  1. Clear cache (More > Settings > Advanced > Clear cache (close to the bottom) > Restart device – last likely not necessary)
    (steps from this helpful NC forum link: Nextcloud taking up a huge amount of space on iphone - #2 by Andreww)

  2. Then tried: More > Settings > Advanced > Clear Log file > close app (had to scroll)

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Same issue,at last I just uninstall nextcloud, and use web interface :joy: