If you are using an iPhone, you might notice that after a certain time, your phone gets slower,r and it’s hard for you to work properly on the phone. It’s because of the cache memory. The cache memory takes more and more space on your phone and slowing down your device day by day. It’s necessary for a device to have cache memory, but in order for your phone to run smoothly, you need to remove cache memory regularly. Here’s a guide to clear the cache on an iPhone.
There are a few ways available to clear cache from your device. You have to follow them all in order to be totally cache free.
Unused App Cleaner
A lot of apps are rarely used on your iPhone. Those apps save a lot of cache data. iPhone has a special feature to offload all that app data and make your device clean.
- Open Settings
- Go to General
- Navigate to Storage
- Enable “Offload Unused App”
That’s it, all the unused apps from your iPhone will clear cache but save your personal files. If you don’t trust the automated system you can also manually remove all the unused app data. This may take a bit more of your time.

Clear Cache from Browser
iPhone web browsers save a lot of cache data over time. If you use the Safari browser a lot, you will have a lot of cache data on it. You can simply get rid of it by following these steps
- Go to settings
- Open Safari
- Tap on “Clear History & Website Data”
- Confirm your choice
If you use any other browser, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera browser, UC browser, Brave browser, you can also clear those data from Settings> Apps
Remove Apps Manually
A lot of times, we don’t notice that some apps take a lot of memory from our devices, and we don’t even need that. Open your apps and filter them by size, and you will see the heaviest app there. If you see any unused app or a less important app that is taking a lot of space you can simply uninstall it.

Things to Avoid
Don’t be in hurry while clearing cache from your iPhone. You might delete some important files and lost it forever. Once you delete cache, you will never be able to recover it. Never remove data from those apps that are essentials for you.
Try not to use any third-party app to make your iphone faster. Those are harmful for your device. Apple itself gives all the optimization feature in the device. Keep your phone updated to take advantage of all the latest features of iOS. A lot of features were not available on iOS 14, iOS 15, iOS 16, iOS 17. New iOS 18 has a lot of cool new features and we probably going to see lot new on iOS 19.
Conclusion
It’s a trouble if you can’t run your phone smoothly specially if it’s an iPhone. Cache is one problem that disturbs android and apple users both. A lot of brands comes with built in cache removing features. A lot of them are trying to optimize the cache data so it don’t take a lot of space.