Date: 6/23/26 6:19 pm From: Steve Patterson (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Merlin being giant data hog, but "data and documents" files not accessible - advice?
Betsy, my Merlin app doesn't a lot of storage, but a few days ago it suddenly changed from English to Russian (or some Cyrillic language. Unable to find a way to to fix it, I had to uninstall the app and reobtain it.
Steve PattersonHilton Head Island, SC
On Monday, June 22, 2026 at 10:09:24 PM EDT, Betsy Kane (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> wrote:
Merlin is soaking up 200G of storage on my phone, of which most is "data and documents". Only a very small fraction is the app itself, per my phone's memory usage data.
I go into Merlin to see my data and documents. Click on Sound Recordings -- nothing comes up. (This isn't new -- I haven't been able to access any sound recordings in Merlin in years)
I would like to delete my "data and documents" for Merlin since I can't access them anyway and really need the 200G of storage for other things, like the operating system.
This is on an iPhone.
(I don't think it's a bunch of bird packs because I have already offloaded the ones I'm not using. Only the Southeast pack shows anyway)
Appreciate any advice on how to shed 200 Gigs.
Betsy KaneWashington, N.C.
