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Clay Nichols
Clay Nichols

Reputation: 12139

What is the maximum size of a Web SQL DB in iOS (Safari) on the iPad? How about LocalStorage?

What is the maximum data size when using HTML5's Web SQL to store data locally on the iPad?

When you reach that, does it just prompt the user to increase it? Is that a simple yes/no permission request? If so, what's the hard limit (beyond which there isn't even the option of the user allowing it to expand)?

Does LocalStorage work the same way?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 16103

Answers (3)

Oliver Lloyd
Oliver Lloyd

Reputation: 5004

The total limit for all WEB SQL Databases created by your site on Mobile Safari is 50Mb. Users are asked to confirm acceptance above 5Mb and you cannot later increase the size of an existing database, you can only create a new, secondary, db, so you have to plan well and set the size when you first create the db.

var theBiggestDB = openDatabase('databaseName', '1.0', 'My Database', 50*1024*1024);

See this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6281947/1233018

Upvotes: 4

Serhii Halchenko
Serhii Halchenko

Reputation: 722

For HTML5 Application Cache limit is 50 MB. I tried following manifest (more than 50MB in total)

CACHE MANIFEST

CACHE:
icon.gif
font.ttf
index.htm
5mb.mp4
7_4mb.mp4
19mb.mp4
19_1mb.mp4

And it says "Application cache update failed because size quota was exceeded"

If I change manifest to following (less than 50MB in total)

CACHE MANIFEST

    CACHE:
    icon.gif
    font.ttf
    index.htm
    # 5mb.mp4
    7_4mb.mp4
    19mb.mp4
    19_1mb.mp4

It asks me to increase application cache size to 50MB and save all data correctly.

Tested it on iPad, iPad 2, The new iPad

For WEB SQL storage should be the same limit.

Upvotes: 0

Brendan Lesniak
Brendan Lesniak

Reputation: 2311

After 5MB, I believe it prompts the user if they would like to allocate more space. That's for WebSQL.

There is no maximum limit to the size, as far as I've seen.

Upvotes: 0

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