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Trevor Nace checks what stays behind after deleting iPhone apps

His storage-cleanup tutorial separates removing an app, clearing leftover documents and keeping its data for a possible return.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 59,814 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (3,880).

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Trevor Nace starts with the part of an app cleanup that is easy to overlook: the documents sitting in Files after an icon has disappeared. His tutorial, "You Are Deleting Apps WRONG Do This Instead", has drawn nearly 50,000 views in sixteen hours, already far beyond his usual first-day audience.

The walkthrough begins in Files, under On My iPhone, where Nace demonstrates removing app folders and documents. He then moves through deleting the app itself and switching off its backup data in iCloud. The distinction matters to his explanation: space on the phone and space in a cloud backup are separate places to check.

Not everyone in the comments thinks the cloud step needs doing manually. One viewer argues that a later automatic backup handles it; another wants something different altogether, a way to remove the App Store's cloud-shaped redownload marker. That question goes beyond the storage cleanup Nace demonstrates.

For anyone who wants space back without fully parting with an app, his final section offers Offload App in iPhone Storage. Nace explains that it removes the app while retaining login details and associated information for a reinstall. After a title about deleting things, the tutorial ends with an option for keeping something.

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What viewers say

  • What I'd also like is to delete any trace on the App Store that I downloaded that app. For example, if I remove TikTok and its associated data, the App Store will still show that "little cloud" to redownload it.
    @Alessandro---See it on YouTube
  • You’re watching this video wrong too.
  • Great information Trevor. Thanks ❤
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The facts
Subscribers
1,520,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
3,911,290
Channel views, pace per day
607,348 (on a normal day: 612,580)
Video published
October 18, 2026
Video views so far
49,596 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
59,814

The numbers

The app-deletion tutorial is drawing an unusually large audience for a new Trevor Nace upload. Views across the channel as a whole remain close to their usual daily level.

the video's first day
usual first day here
3,880
this video
59,814
subscribers
1,520,000
▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days
total views
618,324,013
views per day
607,348
typical day: 612,580
the video
views
49,596
likes
803
comments
19
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Trevor Nace
1,520,000
Matty McTech
1,480,000
Insert Richie
1,480,000
Techmoan
1,470,000
Brandon Butch
1,440,000
As of October 19, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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