The publicly-available versions of iOS 7 disabled the swipe to delete feature for streamed content. I assumed – incorrectly – that the feature was removed because cached video content was being automatically removed from disk. This turns out not to be the case, as I have discovered tonight. This means that the developers of Videos.app removed the only way to delete cached video, seemingly without replacing it with any other cache-clearing strategy. Maybe it’s just an oversight, but either way it’s frustrating. Jared Sinclair
Back in iOS 6, a similar swipe-to-delete gesture was available in ‘Settings’ to delete the entire Camera Roll – and now in iOS 7 it has mysteriously disappeared! So currently there’s no easy way to clear the storage space occupied by photos on your device after a local backup (selecting hundreds of them one by one doesn’t count for obvious reasons!). Another annoyance to add to the growing list of unsolved iOS issues…
(skip to tip no. 3 at the 4min mark)
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