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mredofcourse t1_j2tupw8 wrote

Counter argument:

Maybe don't do this at least not as a routine as the author suggests, nor at the levels the author suggests. I've never done this on my iPhone, although I'm imagining it was cleared when I transferred to a new iPhone on September 16. My cache is at 128.4MB. That certainly doesn't seem like much in terms of either storage space or what would bog down web browsing.

Cache serves a purpose and can really speeds things up as it's loading data locally as opposed to fetching over the Internet. Unless Safari, Chrome, etc... are absolute sh*t at managing cache, it's likely to be purged before hit-misses on cache slow things down.

Further, as the author states...

>clearing your cache also signs you out of pages, so be prepared to sign in to everything again.

That's likely to consume far more time.

I could see doing this if you're experiencing problems or if your cache was huge, but otherwise, doing this as if it's some needed routine is just baselessly assuming that Chrome, Safari, etc... aren't properly managing their caches.

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pseudocultist t1_j2txwdh wrote

CNET is basically Business Insider level these days. If they’re telling you to do something with your phone or computer, probably ignore it.

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protoopus t1_j2tsxb0 wrote

ok, now how do i clear out the data on the reddit app?

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iamkeerock t1_j2vatk0 wrote

Settings > Clear Local History

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protoopus t1_j2vcs26 wrote

appreciate that.
however i don't find "clear local history" either in the "settings" list or in the list under "reddit."
perhaps i have an older os...

EDIT: never mind, i found it.

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devgeniu t1_j2w2d7w wrote

I bet they also force-close the apps after using them

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tcfodor t1_j2y5b79 wrote

Honest question - is there a reason not to force-close apps? I have some apps set to track location only when using the app, so I close them when I’m done. Also, I figured not having a bunch of apps running in the background might help performance.

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geekbread t1_j2ygy51 wrote

There is a lashback online against force-closing because according to apple "It doesn't matter", but anecdotally, I've found it really helps improve battery life. I'm guessing Apple's definition of "it doesn't matter" is when the app is doing absolutely nothing in the background, but most modern apps are doing something.

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Elegant_Pressure_984 t1_j2vjeu2 wrote

This isn’t “an iPhone cache” it’s a browser cache (subtitle of the article) and you do not need to be worrying about that. All browsers manage their local cache based on a number of factors including remaining space given by the device, and a bigger cache is not a slower cache by any means at all. The only reason to clear cached data is when something’s going wrong and even then it’s probably just a single site’s data that you want to clear.

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zoomonayamaha t1_j2xaaf7 wrote

Terrible advice, this will do the exact opposite.

Source: I'm a software engineer who makes web apps

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