We’ve covered a variety of ways to free up some storage space on iOS devices, the gist being that what you’ll want to do is remove some of the stored media like pictures, movies, music, and videos (only after backing up this media, of course), and then go through and delete apps you don’t use often anymore. Generally the best thing to do if you see that Cleaning process going on your iOS device is to back up the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and then clean things up a bit. See the iOS App “Cleaning” Name? Back Up & Clean House Users interested in taking matters into their own hands can clear out iOS caches manually using the PhoneClean app but it requires connecting the iPhone / iPad to a computer, but it may clear up somewhere between a couple hundred megs to even a GB or two of storage space on a device. Though it’d be convenient to recover some space in a pinch, there is no way to manually trigger the “cleaning” process in iOS except to force your iOS device to run out of space, hardly a practical move. Typically when “Cleaning” finishes up, it can free up a few hundred MB of space by dumping apps temp files. If you see the “cleaning” process you can confirm that space is running very low by going to Settings > General > Usage, don’t be surprised to see that you have a MB or two, if not the dreaded “0 bytes available” left on the device. Additionally, those app caches and temporary files contribute to making up some of that mysterious “Other” storage space that users will often find when synced to iTunes and wonder about. This is why you’ll most often see the process occurring on apps that are downloading data from the internet, like Instagram, Facebook, and Vine, though it can occur on other apps too. Basically, when iOS detects that available space is low, it starts looking at apps that have stored significant local data from caches and temporary files, and looks to ‘clean’ that out by deleting the stored cache files. Though the Cleaning process may appear to happen completely at random, the function is almost always triggered by the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running very low on available storage space. “Cleaning” Usually Indicates Available Device Storage Space is Very Low This happens on all iOS devices, so it doesn’t matter if you’re on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you’ll likely see the same occurrence from time to time. In short, when an iOS app name says “Cleaning”, it means that the operating system is going through and clearing out caches and temporary files associated with the app in question. App “Cleaning” Means Dumping Caches, Local Data, & Temp Files
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