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

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.

It’s in the settings menu, near the bottom iirc

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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Settings > Clear Local History

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.

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.

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

It’s at the bottom of the settings page

Terrible advice, this will do the exact opposite.

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

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.

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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