CCleaner – Phone Cleaner

I’ve been using the free version of CCleaner for years. I’m glad you’ve gotten to the iPhone now. I know it’s early days so I’m looking forward to seeing what it does in the future

I'm a long time subscriber to CCleaner for Windows. In the 10+ years, that I used CCleaner it's been very reliable and well worth the purchase price. So when I saw CCleaner was available for the iPhone, I was ecstatic, especially since I have tons of photos and have been looking for a way to clean them up. On the App Center description, it shows that CCleaner can identify duplicates. So I was surprised to find that It found no duplicates among my many photos, even though I kniw there are plenty to find. To fully see the photo, you have to open it -- there doesn't seem to be a way to see the grid display with anything other than 3 photos across. When I tried to go to the support page, it doesn't even give CCleaner for iOS as an option for feedback. Suffice it to say, I've already cancelled my subscription, and the only reason I'm giving 2 stars instead of 1 is that I still have positive feelings about CCleaner due to my other positive experiences over the years with it.

I was so disappointed. I really like the Windows version. This product however should not have been released. I tried, one at a time being cautious, to merge contacts. It has some major shortcomings. Looks for matches on phone number and at times presents multiple “duplicates” but won’t let you choose which to merge, it’s all or none. It identified one legitimate dupe which I already knew about for a friend. Also listed her husband, having matched their common landline. So I tried merging to see what would happen. It didn’t merge much, and frustratingly removed what it did not merge. I had them identified as each other’s spouse. Incidentally, her name is earlier in the alphabet than his. It kept his contact, and removed both of hers. Listed her as spouse. Did not include her in the contact name. Kept her mobile number (identified originally as Mobile) and just listed it as Phone. Deleted her birthday and address!!! That information was not included with the husband. I had a separate contact for him because I need his number in case of emergency. (I’ve had group messages choose seemingly random numbers for someone, even though the correct number was already in the group). Grateful that I noticed the data loss, I had to scrounge multiple places to recover it. (Birthday entries in the calendar were deleted, even historical ones…) And to make the process so much more irritating, for EVERY SINGLE action I was shown an ad. The largest, longest, loudest, most intrusive ads I have ever encountered. I get ad supported ads, but this was too much. Needless to say, I won’t be using this app any more. Kept it long enough to provide a laundry list for the devs for at least improving the contact cleaning. This app in its current state is just not ready for prime time.