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I recently installed Spotify on my iPhone 5s (iOS 7.1.1) and have a premium subscription. It's been running fine, but one thing I have noticed is that the app is taking up approx 0.5GB of space on the phone (I noticed this as I have just ran out of space on the device).
The app itself is only about 40MB and I only have one album saved for offline play. I don't have any playlists created or anything.
Does anyone know how/why it's taking up so much space on the phone?
Many thanks,
Steve
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The Spotify iOS app is seriously in need of a button to Clear the Cache.
It’s utterly stupid that Spotify having over 100 million total listeners all over the world has no solution to this other than having both of us delete the app and reinstall every f****** time.
Moreover, I have a 16GB iPhone 5. I know, I should upgrade, but with Apple giving us no options to clear the cache of any of its apps, its just downright unfair. (if you're an Android user and you're reading this, then you're pretty lucky)
So far I have only found these 8 ways to reduce Spotify's storage on iPhone to work with my iPhone 5 16GB..
Here's the guide guys, I hope it helps you guys too! 🙂
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Was a Cache cleaning option idea not brought up years ago?
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The space taken continues to grow. Spotify emailed me to say it's probably cached data (as mentioned above), but as the device needed it, it would be deleted and the space allocated elsewhere. This hasn't been happening. The phone continues to run out of space (i.e. photos can't be saved etc) and none of the 0.65GB now taken by the Spotify app frees up.
Only way to clear the cache on iOS right now is to reinstall spotify.
This happens due to the App loading your songs on the device for quicker skipping, offline listening if you're a premium user and being easier on the servers.
If you need that space, currently, the only way to clear Spotify's data on iOS is unninstalling and reinstalling the app.
If you're not needing the space it's using, don't worry. When other apps you use more frequently need that space, iOS will automatically clean Spotify's data. You should see something similar to the screenshot below (look at the brown icon with a star, above Evernote)
Going along these lines, I am a new user with questions and I apologize if they are repetitive.
1. If I have such a memory issue and I delete and reinstall on my phone, do I lose everything like my playlists, songs, albums, etc?
2. If I cick available offline, that downloads a local copy to my phone? It seems when I unclick it, it no longer is available however I assume there would still be a local copy that was downloaded and taking up memory? Am I misunderstading how this works?
3. There does not seem to be a way to chose single songs to be downloaded. I have to do everythibg have for that album or artist or everthing under songs? It seems the only way is to set up a playlist with the individual songs you want and they will be avaiable offline when you click the slider? Is this right?
4. How does the slider for "offline mode" in settings tie into all of this?
I appreciate all of the help.
To answer your questions as best I can!
1. Your playlists, songs, albums, account information are all stored remotely by Spotify so you won't loose any content when you re-install the app. The only thing you will loose is offline playlists which just need to be redownloaded again.
2. That is correct. In theory, the space should be made available again after a short period of time (once the app knows you didn't press the undownload button by accident) but this doesn't always happen - it is an issue the Spotify team are aware off.
3. Yup, there is no way to select single tracks for offline mode on Spotify.
4. The slider in the settings menu forces the entire app into offline mode, which prevents it from connecting to the internet. It is handy if you want to stop Spotify from using any of your mobile data.
Peter
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Peter
Spotify Community Mentor and Troubleshooter
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Peter
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Spotify Last.FM Twitter LinkedIn Meet Peter Rock Star Jam 2014
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I read that in Spotify´s takes a portion of all it´s users hard drive in possession. The reasone is cous Spotify itself to some extent acts as a peer-to-peer services to work quickly on mobile devices. Is this true and if so, has it anything to do with your app takes so much space on the phone?
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