For some time now, we have been following readers with doubts about how to unlock certain mysterious spaces occupied by apps on the iPhone.
the case, for example, of Podcasts that even after having all offline episodes manually deleted, it still sometimes takes up a lot of space on the device. See the screenshot that the reader Giovani Librelotto sent us:
@ I replaced the podcasts with the overcast, I deleted all that I had and continue with this space. I suggest? pic.twitter/vwjNTFcsFt
– Giovani Librelotto (@librelotto) January 26, 2016
What happens is that these "mysterious spaces" are nothing more than the application cache, which serve to make the user experience more pleasant without having to redo the download of files unnecessarily. The problem is that Apple simply “assumes” that everyone accepts the idea that iOS itself will clean these caches automatically, only when necessary, and not quite.
With the help of the reader Guilherme Oliveira do Amaral, who was also struggling to solve this, I found a topic on Apple's support forums that brings the golden tip: an app called Battery Doctor, full of cool features among them the possibility of forcing manual cleaning of application caches on iOS.
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We both tested it and it really seems to work. In my case the cleaning was less than 1GB, but it certainly varies from device to device.
To perform the process, very simple:
On the first screen, tap the line that indicates how much space you have available on the device (the one that says "Clean Now"). You go to the tab "Junk", then just touch the green button "Clean Up Cache" and wait. Note that Battery Doctor warns of the possibility of erasing it, for example, progress in certain games; but other than that, there's not much to worry about. It is also possible that you need to perform the process more than once (perhaps several times) to obtain the desired result.
To those who try the app, share your comments below. 😉
Update · 02/01/2016 s 17:06
Readers reported in comments that Battery Doctor can delete the security key from the app Bradesco, probably because it is stored as if it were some kind of cache.
Anyone who is a bank account holder should be aware of this, therefore.
