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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...
Mobile
Third Party Integrations
  • 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 :-)

Chris_S's avatar
Chris_S
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Signing out & signing back in did not clear my cache, I had to uninstall & reinstall.  Please respond to this thread, Dropbox, you are a great service in so many ways but this is really poor & quite crippling to those of us saddled with 16gb phones.

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