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Sohel L.
Sohel L.

Reputation: 9540

Clear Cache in iOS: Deleting Application Data of Other Apps

Recently, I have came across many apps which "Clear Cache" on iPhone. They also specify that you may lose some saved data and temp files.

What I know is that Apple doesn't allows you to access data of other Apps neither directory. So, how they are cleaning cache data? Can anyone put some light on it?

Reference: Magic Phone Cleaner

Power Clean

Upvotes: 17

Views: 3110

Answers (3)

Rukshan
Rukshan

Reputation: 8066

No app can access anything outside of it's sandbox environment. In other words, technically it's impossible to clean cache on an iPhone unless it's jailbroken. Most of these apps doesn't do what they say, they just give an illusion to user. Loading up the memory can force iOS to terminate other apps in the background but, I it's unlikely that it will give any performance boost.

Upvotes: 1

Liam
Liam

Reputation: 120

It doesn't clear data in external apps, it clears external data left by apps. Clearing the cache basically deletes all the temporary files.

Upvotes: 0

Moaz Ahmed
Moaz Ahmed

Reputation: 451

They simply fill the free space on iPhone temporarily with random data leaving the system with no free space at all.

This forces iOS to clear all temp data, caches and iCloud Photos -if you enabled storage optimization- to clear space. So basically they are tricking the system to force it to clear temp and cached data.

Upvotes: 13

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