App Documents and Data consume a lot of storage space

[Rowee]

Hello,

I am new here and it's been a few months now since I bought affinity designer for iPad. This is a complete game charger for me and will gonna use it I think for the rest of my life. But my biggest problem right now is my storage space. I bought an iPad with only 32gb capacity, since I will just use it for illustration purposes only. Apps like procreate and Morpholio Trace that I am using don't consume a crazy amount of space unlike the affinity designer. I recently delete and reinstall the app just to erase a more than 17gb of documents and data space. I just don't get it. Does it really required for this app to consume this crazy amount of storage space? Is there a way to somehow change the default settings to avoid it from consuming a lot of documents and data space? I am not installing any brushes or assets, and I already turned off the "Cache screen updates" in the general settings. Right now, it just have 1 to 2 gb of documents and data consumption but while using the app, I notice that it begin to increase faster.

I hope someone can help me regarding this matter because I really love the app and can't afford an upgrade as of now.

[stokerg]

Hi @Rowee and Welcome to the Forums,

This topic comes up a lot and the latest was here.  The only way to free up all of the space, as you've found out, is to uninstall and reinstall the app (please make sure to backup the contents of the Affinity Designer folder on iCloud as this is removed when the app is uninstalled and any work saved in that folder)

We do have this logged with the Dev team to improve and the best advice we can give, is not to keep a lot large projects open on the Home screen of Affinity, as they will use storage, make sure to save them and then close them from the home screen. 

[Rowee]

Thank you so much for the response! I hope the dev team will come up with the solution soon. Looking forward for it. I really like the app especially for iPad.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "[iOS] App retaining a lot of storage after closing files" (REF: AF-233) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2805). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.