iOS storage management offers the option to delete an app but retain its data (“Offload App”). I’m wondering if there’s any simple way to do the reverse: keep the app but nuke all its documents and data.
Obviously, you can just totally delete the app along with its data (“Delete App”) and then install the app again. I suppose that would achieve the same goal. But I’m hoping there’s some single-tap option without having to get into the whole delete/re-install rigamarole.
Maybe Apple is guarding against the scenario where an app has a “first run” routine, which creates some data, but also records a state change (somewhere that is not “data”) which keeps the first run routine from being executed on a subsequent launch. If you delete the “data,” in this scenario, you’ve put the app into an unstable state.