Hello.
I have made my youtube blog and this took some tries. Now the problem is that once again, the youtube app takes over one gigabyte and I often have had to reinstall the app to get rid of this problem. Is there a better way`? I am having enough with this reinstalling thing.
By Sabrina, 5 December, 2017
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iOS and iPadOS
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In the Same Boat
Hey Sabrina,
I would also like to know if there is any other way to rid of those pesty documents and data that seems to grow over time for a app. I am not aware of any other method other than deleting the app and then re-installing it back. It is a pain and a waste of our time in having to do this. I'm not certain but I think the app themselves can only do that. For example, Twitter will grow like it was nobody business. However, with in that app there is the choice to clear the data and brings it back to the normal size.
I've seen some computer programs that will do this but that isn't any better than the solution that we have. I can only hope there is a simpler way.
So here is for hoping that somebody has a solution!
Okay this sucks.
Honestly now I will have to go and reinstall this app. And from now on I use the native video app to record videos and then I upload them to youtube because this doesn\t make youtube take up one gigabyte and this is a waste of time for blind and vissually people, maybe even for sighted persons. I don\t know anyone sighted that actually use the youtube app to make their videos. I may be doing videos that can not be done in the native app because I have to clip things together and stuff but to just do my video blog I prefer to actually just use the youtube ap but if it\s going to swell like a frog each time I do my vlogs I think I will stick to the camera app that is on my iPad. Okay, I have 32 gigabytes on my iPad, but no, I don\t want that space to be filled with so much of this youtube app. Honestly I really hope they will fix this so I don\t have to go through the pain in the neck thing to have to actually reinstall the whole app. This doesn\t make sence at all. I deleted the videos on my phone but I cannot delete them from my youtube app because deleting them in the photos app does NOT remove it from the youtube app. I find this an incredibly frustrating thing. I need to find an app that doesn\t end up taking so much space and I think the native app will be perfect except that I cannot pause but I can use iMovie to cut the videos together. I hate that there it\s so hard to find a video recorder that can pause and does not eat up storage. But back to the actual subject of the topic. I am making a video blog and usually take about fifteen takes. I erase them from the photos app. Usually those tries are extremely short because I hate getting a bad start, but they go away just fine from the photos ap. But the stupid recordings still stay in the app and I tried selecting the video in the video screen but there was no action on my rotor so I cannot get rid of those amazingly frustrating videos. And believ me, I am a patient person. I spent about thirty minutes with trying to find a way to remove those nightmarish videos. It ended up for me to have to remove my book app wich is 14 gigabytes, just to make sure I had space. I know, that is a lot of books. And it took very very long to download them again. I have a service for the library in my country and have free books... but back to the subject. I will go reinstall that (curseword) spaceeating app.
Have you tried
Offloading the app.
If you have iOS 11 Go into iPad storage and click the app which is causing problems and click off load app button.
Features probably available in earlier versions of iOS it will be in the iPad storage settings.
Problem is this
This only takes away the app and not the data and it’s not directly the app that is huge it is the data. So I have reinstalled the app now.
Maybe
There are dozens of video, photo and pdf compression apps in the app store. Might help. Don‘t know.
Do it like in the competition (Android)
Hopefully Apple in the future, will go along the Android route, of being able to delete only the Data and not the app. This would solve the problems of apps guldging like Spotify, Whatsap, and others. Yes apple did good in implementing keeping the Data and being able to off-load the app, but why not the other way around?