Is there a way to determine the amount of disk space an app has used in iOS?

Question

I've seen many posts about how to get the amount of free space the iOS device has, or how much free space the iOS device has, but is there a way to determine how much space the app itself has used? (Including the app itself and all of its resources/documents/cache/etc). This would be the same value that can be seen in Settings->General->iPhone Storage.

Answer 1

I ended up figuring out how to do this:

I created a category on NSFileManager and added:

-(NSUInteger)applicationSize
    NSString *appgroup = @"Your App Group"; // Might not be necessary in your case.

    NSURL *appGroupURL = [self containerURLForSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier:appgroup];
    NSURL *documentsURL = [[self URLsForDirectory: NSDocumentDirectory inDomains: NSUserDomainMask] firstObject];
    NSURL *cachesURL = [[self URLsForDirectory: NSCachesDirectory inDomains: NSUserDomainMask] firstObject];

    NSUInteger appGroupSize = [appGroupURL fileSize];
    NSUInteger documentsSize = [documentsURL fileSize];
    NSUInteger cachesSize = [cachesURL fileSize];
    NSUInteger bundleSize = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleURL] fileSize];
    return appGroupSize + documentsSize + cachesSize + bundleSize;
}

I also added a category on NSURL with the following:

-(NSUInteger)fileSize
{
    BOOL isDir = NO;
    [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:self.path isDirectory:&isDir];
    if (isDir)
        return [self directorySize];
    else
        return [[[[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfItemAtPath:self.path error:nil] objectForKey:NSFileSize] unsignedIntegerValue];
}

-(NSUInteger)directorySize
{
    NSUInteger result = 0;
    NSArray *properties = @[NSURLLocalizedNameKey, NSURLCreationDateKey, NSURLLocalizedTypeDescriptionKey];
    NSArray *files = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtURL:self includingPropertiesForKeys:properties options:NSDirectoryEnumerationSkipsHiddenFiles error:nil];
    for (NSURL *url in files)
    {
        result += [url fileSize];
    }

    return result;
}

It takes a bit to run if you have a lot of app data, but it works.