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Marcus D.9's avatar
Marcus D.9
Explorer | Level 4
10 years ago

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...
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  • Tomáš P.2's avatar
    Tomáš P.2
    8 years ago

    Just noticed today that there's a new button in Dropbox settings saying Clear cache. So hopefully the problem is now resolved :-)

Rich's avatar
Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
10 years ago

I realize the Documents and Data referenced are most likely the result of recent files being cached by the app

Yes, that's correct.

is there any way to manually clear that cache? Or set a limit of cache size?

No, there isn't. They will be removed automatically.

Currently, uninstalling and reinstalling the app is the only solution I've found

Unfortunately, that's also correct.

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