Analysis of the Facebook app for iOS

Re:Analysis of the Facebook app for iOS by TorKlingberg on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:12AM (#14086313)

There must be a lot of people out there with 16GB iPhones that are constantly out of space. I don't think Apple publishes stats, but I guess >50% buy the cheapest model. The Facebook app also likes to use 500 MB for cache with no way to clear it other than deleting the app.

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Re:Analysis of the Facebook app for iOS by jimboj on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:23AM (#14086367)

Lots of apps are like this and I don't understand why. They should be using the caches folder and "the system may delete the Caches/ directory to free up disk space". However I have never seen this happen. When my phone runs out of space I have to manually delete these apps. Are they not using the correct folder, or is the system not deleting the caches?

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Re:Analysis of the Facebook app for iOS by alimbada on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:45AM (#14087132)

I have a 16GB iPhone 6 and the Facebook app was the first I culled from my phone ~2.5 years ago. At that time I was getting annoyed that the app had slowly creeped up in size from between ~60MB and ~80MB to over 100MB. I have no intention of ever installing it again as I don't think FB have any interest in reducing the size back down to that level.

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Re:Analysis of the Facebook app for iOS by pacificleo11 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:06AM (#14086880)

I am one of them :(

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