Even though I have no Unread stories in NewsBlur, the NewsBlur app is currently taking 4.2GB of storage on my iPhone. That is more than any other app on my iPhone!!!
How do I get NewsBlur to release/delete the space it is taking on my iPhone? NewsBlur should be cleaning up after itself, but it is not. Is there a function to release/delete the cache?
This might have to do with actual articles being saved offline, especially those with images. You can turn that off under Preferences in the Offline Stories section, if so.
Thank you, but Download Stories was not checked. Though there is a “Cleared all stories and images” within the Offline Stores section. I clicked that and it freed up 3GB.
Is this a “bug” where even though Offline Stories/Download stories is not checked, it still keeps them?
There is a Delete offline stories button under Preferences > Offline Stories, but I found bugs in both that button and automatic cleanup. Cached article text was being left behind, and deleting stories wasn’t shrinking the database file.
I’ve fixed those for the next iOS update (v15, it’s huge and kinda amazing, huge performance improvements all over the app + add and discover sites + iphone duo support). Manual deletion will clear cached stories, text, and images and reclaim disk space. Automatic cleanup will respect your Stories to store limit, prioritizing unread stories and keeping recent read stories in the remaining space.