Fixing my phone

Over the last few months my phone has gotten slower and slower and filled with lots more data than I knew what to do with. So like any good woman I deleted pictures, that had been backed up of course, or apps that I haven't been using. Eventually I looked at what was taking up all of the space and I realized that my Pinterest App was taking up 5GB of space... seriously. I eventually Googled what to do about this and figured it out. So I thought that I would share this with you since I know that most of us have iPhones and love Pinterest.

Look at all of that cached data!!

So to delete this data you need to clear the cached data. To get to this go to your page on your phone and click on the gear in the top left corner. Then click on the account settings page and scroll down to the bottom of the page and then start clearing data.

Click on the gear

Both the browsing history and the recent contacts were relatively easy to clear out but there was so much data I will admit that this took forever. In about 30-45 minutes I could delete about 2MB of data. I found that you do have to have the app up and running for this to work. In the end it took about 2 hours, in the future I will try and do this more and more frequently.

No more data

I will admit that I love my app so I am not willing to delete the app and just reload it. I found that this was a pretty simple fix and I have heard from multiple people that this has happened to them so I figured that I would share with you how I fixed it.

After browsing for about an hour.

Has this happened to you? How did you fix it? I am definitely going to keep up with this so that I don't have to keep deleting things from my phone. Also, doing this does eat the battery when you are working on it.