It’s that time again Lemmings.
Don’t forget to clear your Liftoff cache. Liftoff currently doesn not have a auto clear cache feature.
For those who don’t know how, Android instructions are below
- Long hold the Liftoff icon and select App Info
- Select Storage and Cache
- Press Clear Cache
Feel free to share your cache size and not compare our addictions.
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Thanks doe the reminder, didn’t know about this! I had over 5 gig.
Holy crap I have 13.23 gigs. What is stored in the cache? Do I lose anything when I clear it?
When Liftoff loads a picture or video the file has to be stored somewhere on the device for it to be displayed. All that is stored in the Liftoff cache. You should not loose data by clearing your cache as the cache is suppose to be a temporary storage location.
If you have downloaded things from lemmy via liftoff those files will be unaffected as they are stored elsewhere.
9Gb for October
What a dogshit implementation - this is egregious enough that the app should be pulled/banned until this is patched.
Oh calm down. Its still in development. If one minor issue like manual cache clearing is such a big deal, open an issue on the github page or just fork it and fix it yourself. It’s a FOSS app still in active development, the unfortunate cost of living on the cutting edge is that sometimes you get shoved face first through a tomato.
Genuine question. Is it still in active development? The last release was three months ago, the last commit on GitHub was in August and no posts from the team in two months.
My background is as a product manager for a digital platform, not a developer. I’m not the guy to fix this issue, but I’m pretty comfy it’s a meaningful issue.
While I applaud the FOSS effort (I wasn’t aware), I’m not going to sit on the sidelines clapping as people’s faces are shoved through tomatoes. If this is worthy of a regular reminder at risk of filling your phone, it warrants an urgent fix that appears to be taking time.
Here’s hoping it gets fixed quickly though.
Mate, the official Reddit App used to do the same shit until i think 2019, calm down. Cache clearing is really not that big of a deal
So long as you know to do it as your phone’s storage is gobbled up at an alarming rate.
Most of us are here because we think reddit is shit - that’s not your best point.
If you want manual cache clearing to be gone, you can always do a pull request on the repo, the app is still in beta, it is not in fact officially finished. Don’t expect a work in progress to be a completed product
So if the app fills my phone’s storage, and I don’t know why because I don’t know how to code, and didn’t know this was an issue? This doesn’t stop the app working properly - it stops your phone working properly pretty quickly.
If it’s in beta and affecting people’s phone function, maybe that beta needs to be a little tighter than just grabbing the app from the play store without any warning.
Exactly why I mentioned the official Reddit app at first. Also, filling up your cache and not properly clearing it is a common thing that happens across apps. So common that the button for manual clearing is part of the first things you see when opening app details.
If you own a phone which is not considered to be the “standard”, chances are high a lot more than just this app is not clearing their cache properly. I own such a non-standard phone, and let me tell you, regularly clearing the cache of Whatsapp, Discord and even Youtube are simply things I do every week.
Why? If someone knows the issue, they can choose they want to use the app anyway, or delete it. If the app is pulled, they don’t really have that option.
This is true (though they’d need to v know about the issue and how to fix it). I just hope the app cache is cleared when they uninstall it (though it’d be an OS issue if it didn’t.
NINE GIGS??!!
I have Android 7, which doesn’t have this feature … do I need to clear the cache too? If so, does that mean I have to reinstall the app?
Cache clearing was a thing in 7
Settings -> Apps -> LiftOff -> Storage -> clear cache.
Thank you, I was looking at the wrong bit where it said permissions/storage. Turns out I had just shy of 8Gb there!
If you go into settings->applications->liftoff you should see it in there. Cache clearing has been around as long as I can remember
Thanks, I found it now, I was looking under the wrong part of the app’s settings :-/
I just love announcements with a meme 😂, makes my day 😂.
Well… good to know! 7 gigs for me.
3.48 – less than I expected honestly.
Well, thanks very much! Just shy of 20GB!
6.27 Gb
11.8 Gigs. Thanks OP.
10.4 gig here. Holy shit.
8 gigs. Thanks for the reminder! Is this app still developed? I know that the developer got children and strives to continue, but sometimes life goes a different way. :)
Is this an issue for the iOS app as well? I’m guessing it’s not, since mine is only using 80mb of space.
Yes, but there’s no way of manually clearing the cache. On iOS the app (if it’s in the App Store) must either manage the cache automatically or allow the user to set a cache size limit.
If it gets out of hand (see Settings/General/iPhone Storage) You’d need to uninstall the app, restart your phone and re-install.
No idea, I don’t have an ios device to check against.
Does it clear the cache whenever there’s an update or something? Because mine only uses 60MB, an i never cleared it.
Maybe some optimisation by your phone? I’ve seen phones that suggest regularly cleaning unused files (xiaomi or huawei, not sure).
That might be it, I have a huawei.
Lolz, holy shit I needed this post, ducking community service here
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Only 2GB… Since android 14 update bricked my phone a couple of weeks ago.
Ah hello friend, I feel your pain 😢
