A Herman

Thank you for your suggestions. Other than the stock assets/brushes that come preinstalled with the app, I only have about 160 MB of extra assets/brushes downloaded as seen in this screenshot.

According to iCloud and iPad Storage, Affinity Designer Documents & Data are taking up 28 GB (28,000 MB). I only have 215 files and the largest one I could find (which isn’t easy to do because you have to save each file manually to another location to see the file size) is 133 MB. The second-largest file is only 50 MB, and most of the files are only 1-10 MB each. So the math doesn’t add up. Every single file would have to be 130 MB to add up to 28 GB (28,000 MB / 215 files = 130 MB). Even if all my files were 50 MB each it would only add up to about 10 GB. I’ve seen other people have similar issues on the following post with the only apparent solution being to export/backup all files somewhere and then uninstall/reinstall Affinity Designer. That’s a very laborious workaround for many files, and it really undermines the app’s value as a professional alternative to Adobe. I’ve tried doing a hard-reset to see if that clears the cache, but it didn’t work. It would also be very helpful if we could see the file sizes from within the app to see what exactly is causing the bloated file size. I’m using Affinity Designer 1.9.2 and iPadOS 14.4.2 on a 2019 ipadPro 12.9”. Thanks! Andrew

I’m having this issue when I’m on the Designer or Photo startup screen showing all files and projects. To leave either app I have to scroll past all the files (which takes a couple seconds) and then when I hit the bottom it takes another several seconds of swiping up until it registers that I want to swipe up the dock/go to the Home Screen. The bar changes from grey to white when it finally lets me swipe up. I’m using Designer 1.9.9 and Photo 1.9.2.236 and using a 3rd-gen iPad Pro 12.9” with iPadOS 14.4.2.