Device storage is a premium commodity. It would be great to see cache clearing and perhaps setting size limits.
Just checked mine, it's at 2GB
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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This no fine uh. No fine.
Yeh I don't see this on my Android device have only around 50mb cached and even that is on the upper end of what I have seen before. 1+gigs seems very extreme
The lowest Iβve seen it in iOS is 350MB. Which still seems insanely large for an app thatβs about 30MB. Yes itβs gotta cache things but what community is posting 100MB gifs 12 times a day??
Edit: Turns out itβs that high because iOS lumps web apps in with Safari wen cache (apparently).
Is your device running low on free space? iOS should reclaim if your device is running low.
Why would Voyager need 1GB of storage???
Voyager doesn't explicitly store much. Less than a few MB. The rest is Safari cache (which is inside the Voyager app container).
Lots of it is probably Safari caching pictures and video. But, Safari is pretty good at cache management and will clear this out as storage is getting constrained. Just like RAM, if there's not much memory pressure, caching is more aggressive and takes advantage of the space.
Overall, it's a good thing. It means your device won't try to fetch the same picture many times over, which adds cost in data transfer to Lemmy administrators.
But again, the caching mechanisms are designed by Apple and shouldn't interfere with device storage, because iOS will clear caches if the device is more constrained on storage.
Knowing iOS lumps web apps into a global safari cache is helpful. That means we canβt get a very accurate measure on iOS unfortunately. I can file a PR with Apple but thatβs just never going to get made.
Still, I cleared out 600MB in just a few days. It all seems very suss based on my usage patterns.
Because you view a lot of content. And for avoid to load it each time, the app keep it cached.
36MB in mine... And I'm using it since the native app is available
Can you post a screenshot? iOS version?
Just realized you are talking about iOS
I'm on android
It's not just you Voyager users. I left Liftoff to try Sync because it had the same problem accumulating too much cache.
For now a workaround is to offload the app and reinstall it. Just grating I need to do that every few days. I think Apollo had the same problem.
Which could be solved by just setting a limiter and clear cache button in settings.
Sync caches a lot as well. Atleast sync for reddit used to
Sync for Lemmy does as well. I've seen it go up to 1.5GB. I highly recommend running Cache Cleaner (FOSS) periodically.
Can you just clear it? Idk, that what I do.
That is a mitigation, the post is a request for a resolution.
I didn't kow it was possible but would love to delete it. I'm off to find out how!
