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How to clear app data on iphone? New convert here.

Dukins

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Hello,

I'm a recent convert to iphone. This is the first iphone I have ever owned. My question is when on android if you wanted to clear all of the app data, you could simply go to settings and clear data, cache and the app would be reset as if you just downloaded it from the play store. Any help would be appreciated. At this point I have to uninstall the app and reinstall the app to clear my data and start from scratch. Hope this makes sense.
 

Bigeric23

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As far as I know, you can't, unless the feature is built into the application. Now, Safari does have an option to Clear History and Website Data in Settings.
 

Just_Me_D

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Also, if the app stores it's data via the iCloud Drive, you can delete the data from there.
 

Ledsteplin

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many apps like Facebook have to be deleted then reinstalled to delete the cache.


Sent from my ancient but trustworthy iPhone 5. ☮
 

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