I have the Pocket app on an iPhone and an iPad. When I check storage usage, they are over 2 and 4 GBs, respectively. Why is the size so big in both cases? The app itself is under 100 MBs according to the App Store. All the saved articles are just text. I have no videos or images.
More importantly, is there a way to reduce the space taken up by the app? There does not seem to be a way to delete archived articles.
Best Answer
Pocket's customer support gave this information to another user who had a very similar problem (albeit in 2014):
Logging out and back in causes the entire local storage to be cleared, at which point only items on your List (not Archived) are re-downloaded.
They also said they were adding a way to limit storage usage as well as make cache cleanup more efficient, though that does not seem to be true in your case.