How to clean the cache of your iPhone and what benefits it has

Deleting the cache of the iPhone can be good to make us have more storage space, especially in those versions where there is not much available. It can be positive to delete it from time to time for various reasons, so we are going to explain how to delete it.

Above all, when a long time has passed since we have the iPhone, it can happen to us that the storage is more and more fair every day, without understanding very well what is happening.

Well, the culprit is caching, something that is good to have, but in its fair measure, since when it is 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, and that is why today we are going to focus on it.

What is cache?

The cache is a form of storage by which you can save the data of apps or the system itself for possible future references.

Thanks to the cache any application already you don’t have to read again in an external location, since it has in that memory everything it needs to operate correctly. This makes applications boot faster and work faster.

It is a memory that is stored and is not controlled by the user, without really knowing what goes to the cache and what does not, since it is the processes of the apps themselves that decide.

This means that there is less and less space for other things, causing in very extreme cases, that this memory no longer leaves room for anything else.

Clear cache in iPhone apps

Let’s see what we must do to delete the data of an application that we have on the iPhone.

This data is the cache, but only for that specific application and, therefore, we can delete it to get more storage space.

• The first thing we are going to do is go to Settings, then enter General.
• Next, we click on iPhone storage.
• After a few seconds while the phone calculates the current storage status, we go down to the list of applications and select the one we want to clear its cache.
• On the page of said application, we select Delete app.

• Then we press again to confirm the choice and that’s it.

This is the way we have to delete the application and everything that generates the cache, there is no other alternative.

If instead of pressing this option, we give Uninstall app, the cache data will be preserved in case we ever reinstall it, so it is not feasible if we need more storage inside our iPhone terminal.

It is a bit of a hassle to have to reinstall the same app that we have deleted if we really want it, but it is the way in which we can empty the data storage of an application that is taking up a lot of space.

Clear Safari cache

Where more cache is generated is in the browser of the phone itself. Safari saves infinite data about all the places that we visit with it and thus an amount of garbage is generated that in some cases could even surprise us.

We can perform this task two different ways. In one we will also delete the browsing history, so it is convenient to know before using it in case we don’t want to. In that case it is better to go to the second option.

This first option deletes, as we have already told you, the browsing history and is done as follows:

• We came in Settings and we go to the section Safari which is at the end of everything.
• Then a little further down we will see what it says Clear history and site data, where we should click.
• Once we press we must confirm in the pop-up window that appears and thus the action will be fulfilled in its entirety.

With this way that we have just seen, everything related to any type of Safari data will be deleted to facilitate browsing, including, as we have already told you, the browsing history.

But it may happen that we do not want such history to be deleted and what is the data itself from the cache of Apple’s browser software.

As we are going to see now, only the browsing data will be deleted, although the process may be somewhat heavier than in the previous case, the truth is that simplicity is still the norm in this type of task.

The steps to follow are those:

• We came in Settings and we go to the section Safari, the same as in the previous case.
• At the bottom we see what it says Advanced, where we should click.
• Then we must select website data.
• Next, after all the data is loaded, which can take several seconds, we’ll see how much cache is stored on each website.
• Then we must click on delete data, an option that we will locate at the end of the whole.

This is the way we have to get the browsing data to be deleted, but the history of it is kept, since we can consider that one of the options is not feasible.

Whichever one we choose, as soon as you have them done, we will see that the storage has a radial change in many cases.

Which has benefits?

The main benefit is that of storage, since if we have spent years with the iPhone and they have never been erased we can get a lot of extra space.

In addition, these types of files are considered junk files and on many occasions they can cause problems in certain applications and even in Safari, slowing down the loading of certain websites or similar errors.

By deleting this data, all of it will be loaded again and there will be no interference between them, unless we go back years without deleting them.

If we want to have a performance as close to the maximum fluidity of the iPhone, we must eliminate this type of files, especially from Safari, from time to time, so that we do not have enough storage and that we do not suffer any type of problem due to corrupt data.

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