Where Does Candy Crush Saga Store Progress?
Level progress and boosters sync through your King or Facebook account. Find out what the local app folder holds and what clearing it costs you.
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King's servers hold your level, boosters and saved lives. The app's storage is mostly downloaded level data and cache, and on older installs that never got cleaned up it can reach several gigabytes.
Progress sync is per account. Sign in with a King profile or Facebook on two devices and the map shows the same spot on both. Without a connected account the game still plays offline, but the progress belongs to that one device, and a lost phone takes it along.
Where Candy Crush Saga stores this, by platform
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.king.candycrushsaga
Downloaded level packs and cache. There is no account file here. Progress syncs through King or Facebook when the game is online, and the folder is hidden from file managers on Android 11 and later.
/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/<guid>/Documents
Per install container holding the same downloaded data. Finder or iCloud backups can carry it across, but signing into the account is the route that always works.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get my Candy Crush progress back?
Sign in with the same King account or Facebook login you used before. The map, boosters and stars return from the servers within moments. If you always played offline as a guest, no account holds that progress and there is nothing to recover.
Does Candy Crush work without internet?
Yes, for a stretch. Levels download in packs and progress saves locally until it can sync. Play too long offline and the game stops you until a connection is available, so connect regularly if the account matters to you.
Why is Candy Crush so large on my phone?
Every world you have reached caches its levels and artwork locally, and the folder only grows as you advance. Reinstalling trims it back to the start and is safe once you are signed in, since the account holds the actual progress.
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