Iphone memory issue

[guygpthomas]

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??? 

[Ryjvc · Accepted solution]

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!

[guygpthomas]

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

[George]

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.

[Fennagain]

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?

[Peter__]

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@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?

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

There is a full explanation here. 

Peter