How to clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8?


If you are looking for an easy way to make additional space available on your Apple device (iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch) running iOS 8 for storing new files even before it hits the storage limit, you may wish to read this post. It displays a quick guide on how to clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8 via using a third party iOS 8 cleaner app.
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How can I clear app caches in iOS 8?
“Hi, there, I just switched from a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to Apple iPhone 6 (16GB). iPhone 6 is very good, but it brings me a little question. Is there a program in iOS 8 like Android that allows me to clear cached data that some apps are storing? Particularly Facebook and Instagram, as these two seem to be stockpiling ridiculous amounts of data. Is it possible to clear caches on apps such as these without having to delete and reinstall them? Any ideas on this? Please suggest a solution. Thanks a lot in advance.”

Our Quick Answer
All you need is a helpful iOS8 cleaner app like PhoneClean. PhoneClean is a desktop application available for Mac and Windows, which offers a one stop solution to clean up unnecessary files from an iOS device. Here’s a quick guide that helps you to manually remove unnecessary app data and free up space on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 8 via using PhoneClean, without jailbreaking it.

[Guide] How to use PhoneClean to empty junk files and caches on iOS 8 devices?

Here’s what you need
PhoneClean
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You can use ‘Quick Clean’ and ‘Deep Clean’ to delete junk files, caches, cookies and other unwanted items on your iOS 8 devices.
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Part 1: How to Use Quick Clean?
The Quick Clean is a unique and classic feature brought by PhoneClean. In the most recent version, it covers even more types of junk files that may occupy storage space and slow down the performance of your devices. Newly added download temp, photo caches, user storage files and iTunes Radio cache removal features to help you reclaim much more free space.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 1: Choose Quick Clean to Get Started
Hover your mouse on the Quick Clean button > you’ll see what types of junk file PhoneClean will help you remove > if you don’t want to let PhoneClean clean some particular types of junk, then you can click on the blue switch button to turn it off. Once you did so, PhoneClean will skip scanning the files in that category.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 2: Start Scan
After checking that, click the Start Scan button and PhoneClean will start to scan your device. During this period of time, you are allowed to Stop or Skip scanning particular file categories.
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Step 3: Pre-check
Once the scanning is finished, PhoneClean will list all the scanning results which helps you confirm if they are ready to remove. Double click on the Photo Caches, for example, you can check every piece of junk files digged out by PhoneClean. If you found some of them are still useful, then you can simply uncheck these items to prevent PhoneClean from cleaning.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 4: Start Cleaning
After making sure all scanning results are safe to remove, click Clean and PhoneClean will start to clean up your device. The cleaning time largely depends on the size and items of junk file.

Part 2: How to Use Deep Clean?
PhoneClean turns your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a risk-free handheld device which you’ll never worry about your sensitive data leaks. By thoroughly scanning your devices, PhoneClean finds and lists messages, Internet history, Safari cookies, calling history, email caches, and all your private content, so that you can choose which of them is supposed to be removed from your device.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 1: Choose Deep Clean to Get Started
Hover your mouse on the Deep Clean button and click it, you’ll see what types of personaly information PhoneClean will help you remove > if you don’t want to let PhoneClean clean some particular types of private data, then you can click on the blue switch button to turn it off (the button will turn gray). Once you did so, PhoneClean will skip scanning the files in that category.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 2: Backup
Considering the significance of your personal data, PhoneClean creates full backups for your devices prior to any cleaning action. So even you mistakenly deleted some important info, you can still get them back by performing a recovery from the backups. The regular backup time is about 1-8 minutes, but it also depends on the usage of your device.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 3: Scan
Once the backup is finished, PhoneClean will automatically start scanning your device. During this period of time, you can choose Stop or Skip the category that you want PhoneClean to leave behind.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 4: Pre-check
After finishing the scanning, PhoneClean will show you all the potential risky private data. Click on one category to check if there is any useful info that you still want to keep.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Moving one step closer by clicking the arrow on the right side, take Call History as an example, you’ll find PhoneClean is your only choice to remove particular call log from a specific time period.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 5: Start Clean
After making sure all scanning results are safe to remove, click Clean and PhoneClean will start to clean up your device. The cleaning time largely depends on the size and items of junk file.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 6: Cleaning Up
As the Deep Clean feature in PhoneClean is system level iOS cleaning procedure, so every time you do a deep clean, the program will restart your device. At this moment, your device will be in Restore in Progress (please rest reassured that all your apps, app data, device settings and other content will be kept intact, and only the items you pre-checked will be removed) status so please DON’T unplug it until PhoneClean finished the cleaning.
clear app cache, cookies, and junk files on iOS 8

Step 7: Check Cleaning Result
After cleaning, PhoneClean will show you how many items have been removed and how much storage space has been reclaimed.

Hope this helps.

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