How to detect total available/free disk space on the iPhone/iPad device?

Question

I\'m looking for a better way to detect available/free disk space on the iPhone/iPad device programmatically.
Currently I\'m using the NSFileManager to detect the disk s

Answer 1

Swift 5 extension for FileManager with proper error handling and no automatic string conversions (convert byte count to string as you prefer). Also follows FileManager's naming.

extension FileManager {
    func systemFreeSizeBytes() -> Result {
        do {
            let attrs = try attributesOfFileSystem(forPath: NSHomeDirectory())
            guard let freeSize = attrs[.systemFreeSize] as? Int64 else {
                return .failure(NSError(domain: "", code: 0, userInfo: [NSLocalizedDescriptionKey : "Can't retrieve system free size"]))
            }
            return .success(freeSize)
        } catch {
            return .failure(error)
        }
    }

    func systemSizeBytes() -> Result {
         do {
             let attrs = try attributesOfFileSystem(forPath: NSHomeDirectory())
             guard let size = attrs[.systemSize] as? Int64 else {
                 return .failure(NSError(domain: "", code: 0, userInfo: [NSLocalizedDescriptionKey : "Can't retrieve system size"]))
             }
             return .success(size)
         } catch {
             return .failure(error)
         }
     }
}

Example usage:

let freeSizeResult = FileManager.default.systemFreeSizeBytes()
switch freeSizeResult {
case .failure(let error):
    print(error)
case .success(let freeSize):
    let freeSizeString = ByteCountFormatter.string(fromByteCount: freeSize, countStyle: .file)
    print("free size: \(freeSizeString)")
}