How to clear the cache, history, and cookies on an iPhone to free up space and improve the speed

How to clear the cache, history, and cookies on an iPhone to free up space and improve the speed

How to free up device space and improve the speed

  • To improve the speed and the performance of the iPhone by clearing the cache, history, and cookies.
  • You can make the extra storage space free up by clearing the iPhone’s app cache.
  • If you clean the iPhone’s cache, you will have logged out of some websites and apps.

There are two main data caches in your iPhone. The first one is Safari and the second one is the other rest of the apps. By clearing the cache you can free up the space on your iPhone. And also you can improve the speed and performance by deleting unnecessary app data.

Here are the methods you should follow to clear the two caches on your iPhone.

Notice: When you clear the cache on the iPhone for Safari or any other app there is something special that you should do. You have to note down all the passwords before clearing the cache. The thing is when you are clearing the cache, you will be logged out from the website that you are visiting frequently.

How to clear the cache, history, and cookies in Safari

The moment you clear the cache on the mobile or the iPhone’s Safari cache, all the files, images, passwords, and scripts from websites that you have visited will be removed off.

The steps to clear Safari’s cache: 

  1. Go to the Settings app and click Safari.
  2. Scroll down and click Clear History and Website Data.

Then you will see a notification. It will ask that are sure to clear Safari’s data. So you have to confirm your choice.

On the other hand, you have the chance to clear only the cache data and keep the history and cookies. If you need to do so go to the Advanced at the bottom, then Web site Data, and at last Remove All Website Data.

How to delete the iPhone’s app cache

Before clearing the cache of your iPhone apps, you have to unload them. This process will free up the storage space. Though you do this still the documents and the data are existing there. After reinstalling the app, you can get all of your data back.

  1. Go to the Settings app and select  General and then select iPhone Storage.
  2. Wait until the page gets loaded with the list of all the apps. After creating the list, select the app that you need to clear and click on  Offload App.

And also you can delete the app if you are not willing to use it anymore. Theis deleting will clear up even more steps that help you.

More Tips: When you go to the list of the apps, you will see a menu named Offload Unused Apps. If you make it enable, this will make your iPhone automatically offload the apps that you have not used very often.

We hope that this article is very supportive for you to improve the speed and free up the space on your mobile phone. If you have any ideas that are not mentioned in the article leave them in the below comment section.

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