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How to clear the Dropbox mobile app cache on iPhone/iPad?
Using an iPhone 5C running iOS 9.1 and Dropbox 4.0.4. The iOS Dropbox app itself is only 55.8 MB in size, however my iPhone is reporting that Dropbox is using a total of 300+ MB in Documents and Data...
Just noticed today that there's a new button in Dropbox settings saying Clear cache. So hopefully the problem is now resolved :-)
This is indeed a problem, and it pisses me off. Dropbox may be obnoxious (no more so than any other tech biz I'm sure) or not, but I think this is more a reflection of the issues at Apple about on-phone storage. Apple phones really are the only ones that are so expensive for the storage options. I shouldn't think a single Android user even considers this a problem as they can put hundreds of gigs of storage on their phones cheaply and easily.
I'm a big iOS user and also old enough to realise that this is the same argument people were having about some software being 'bloaty' in the years when HDDs were small... The solution, sadly, is just buy 64GB or 128GB iPhones. Do i want to? No. Will my work provide one? Not readily. But I choose iOS devices - and if you do too, you should be aware of their limitations, as well as those of Dropbox.
