iPhone App Cleaning Issue: 3 Important Information You Should Know

iPhone App Cleaning Issue: 3 Important Information You Should Know

There are many iPhone users that confuse about the iPhone app cleaning issue. Okay, you may will get a message under Instagram or Whatsapp icon or the other iPhone apps such as iWork, YouTube, Pinterest that say “cleaning”. Of course, you will have a question about that case, what’s the mean when you have this problem. However, just relax before we start our discussion and there is no need to worry about that “cleaning message”.

This case almost happens on the iPhone with less storage (16GB and 32GB). Well, we have already know that there is only internal storage available for the iPhone. Moreover, the development of apps for iPhone are going bigger and larger over the time. That’s the reason, the iPhone users need to manage their own apps. I mean, if you are iPhone users, you need to only install the important apps because you have a limit storage. Okay, let’s go for the most popular related to the iPhone app cleaning message.

1. What’s the “cleaning” mean for the iPhone app cleaning issue?

Well, when some of your iPhone apps says it’s “Cleaning,” that means the iPhone (or the other iOS device) is “deleting unneeded files” that stored in the temp directories & caches. Of course, this will help you to free up the space of your iPhone storage. The apps can not be used/modified while they are in the cleaning process (process: should take for a while). The app icon will return to normal after the cleaning process done.

After the cleaning process has cleared the cache, the icons of document in the iWork app will show a download arrow. So, you can just tap the document in order to download, then you can open it as usual. If there is a problem such as you are not be able to open your document, you can contact the iCloud Support to get help.

This is an automatically cache cleaning feature that available for the iPhone users in order to the storage management. Actually, it will optimize the performance of your iPhone when the space storage is limited. So, your iPhone will survive when the space is limited by doing the cleaning process.

2. When the cleaning message is appearing on iPhone?

The “Cleaning message” will appears when your iPhone is clearing the cache of the apps. Then, what should you do? Let’s make it clear, there is nothing to do except waiting until the Cleaning message go away, and that means the cleaning process is complete. Please don’t be afraid losing your data, because your data are stored on your iCloud account. Now the (cache) cleaning process occurs automatically on iOS 5; iOS 6; iOS 7; iOS 8 and iOS 9 devices when your iPhone has less than 1GB of free or available storage. (NOTE: please check the available storage space of your iPhone from the settings).

3. More information about the cleaning feature

Again, this is like an official “storage management” feature that has designed for the iPhone (iOS device) in order to optimize the performance when the free space is limited. This is like a special feature for the iOS, unlike the android that should get a cleaning cache app in order to delete the unneeded files. Thus, there is no need for the iPhone users to download additional cache cleaning app. If you want to get the additional cache cleaning app, you can get from the App Store.

Well, that’s all about the iPhone app cleaning. So, we have 3 questions and the answer related to the iPhone app cleaning issue. If there something to ask, just write down in the comment. As soon as possible, we will try to help you guys. Thank you.

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