Ancestors

Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-11 at 23:18

Getting ready for a new phone, and looking at how much space apps take in my iCloud backup. By far the largest app by backup size is the NY Times app, at 1.3 GB. Astonishingly, it seems to back up its own cache to iCloud storage. What is the point of that? Why would I want anything backed up from this app, with the possible exception of login credentials?

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Toot

Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-11 at 23:21

On the one hand, the whole backup is ~7 GB, which is fine these days I guess? On the other, is most of this data just saved state and cache that I don't care about keeping? Don't all these apps already know everything I've ever done on every device anyway?

And of course it is not worth spending much time on cleaning it up unless hitting some storage limit.

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Descendants

Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-11 at 23:26

Also every time I look at the storage size it is a different number. Is it 7.1 GB? 5.6 GB? 🤷‍♂️

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