It’s wild how Apple, the grand wizard of “It just works,” has iPads that slow to a crawl faster than I can finish my morning coffee. I’m seeing a lot of hype for stuff like “cleaner” apps, but truth? Most of the so-called iPad cleaning tools are as useless as a third ear—either they’re naggy ad farms, want all your data, or hit you with paywalls after scanning all your stuff.
Now, someone up there dropped the “Free Clever Cleaner App,” and I’ll admit—it’s probably the most legit you’ll actually find in the App Store. Not gonna disagree with @nachtdromer on that. You can use it to hunt down those duplicate photos (why do I have 17 screenshots of the same meme?), massive videos, and other junk files camping out for no reason. It’s not a silver bullet, but that’s more iPadOS being a control freak than the app’s fault.
But listen, before you go all-in on any cleaner, remember—third party apps can’t magically free the system cache, memory leaks, or clear up “Other” storage (that ghost chunk that no one, not even Apple Geniuses, seems able to explain fully). The real move is a quick checkup: delete unused apps, offload those rarely-used ones, back up to iCloud or Google Photos (it’s free up to a point), smash that “Clear Safari Cache” button, and, yeah, brace yourself—actually delete stuff manually.
If you’re still stubborn for a cleaning app, for real, check out streamlining and cleaning up your iPad storage. But don’t expect miracles—iPadOS keeps the deepest closets locked.
Honestly, kinda wish Apple would just let us dig around in the actual files like adults, but here we are. Anyone else find a ninja-cleaner hack for iPad that actually, you know, does something? Or are we all just pretending our 128GB iPads aren’t 91% photos and 9% mysterious “System Data”?
