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Iphone memory issue

guygpthomas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:06:08 GMT

My iphone 4 is only an 8GB. My Spotify app is taking up most of this. How do I free up more space? Do i have to delete some playlists? I'm not that computer literate! Can someone please help???

Re: Iphone memory issue

Ryjvc — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:43:21 GMT

Ok if you've made the lists "play off line" then that will take up space. You'll know if you've done this because the playlists have a green tick by them. If not then try deleting spotify and reinstalling. I find for some strange reason that spotify takes a lot of my memory every now again. For instance this mornin deleting and reinstalling has given me 4gb back and that's with the playlist synced for off line use. Have no reason why!

Re: Iphone memory issue

guygpthomas — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:05:49 GMT

Thanks! Your suggestion works! Its a small pain, but worth it. My next iphone will definitely have moire memory!

Re: Iphone memory issue

George — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:14:33 GMT

I believe it's caused by the app caching music. But unlike the Andriod app there is no clear cache functionality.

The cache is supposed to shrink and clear as iOS device needs more space for other apps etc... but this doesn't seem to work all that well.

The idea is that if a song is cached, it will be able to playback quicker (less time waiting for tracks to load). Which is good, until it's caching songs you don't listen to regularly, and takes up too much space.

Re: Iphone memory issue

Fennagain — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:49:31 GMT

From the answers as to why spotifuggle seems to hog memory on my iPhone, I take it that there is no real solution but to uninstall the app every time it starts to gobble up memory. Is this correct?

Re: Iphone memory issue

Peter__ — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:08:22 GMT

@Fennagain wrote:

From the answers as to why spotifuggle seems to hog memory on my iPhone, I take it that there is no real solution but to uninstall the app every time it starts to gobble up memory. Is this correct?

Not exactly, since the space taken up by Spotify is cache rather than actual storage.

There is a full explanation here.

Peter