Unable to delete mail data
discovered With horror that mail used more than a gig for ‘documents and data’. Deleted the app with the option to delete all documents. Yet, the app gone, ‘settings’ still shows more than a gigs worth of ‘documents and data’. Restarted the phone, reinstalled mail app, mail disabled on all accounts, nothing helps: mail consumes more than a gig for ‘documents and data’. Ironically, similar issue with ‘reminders’.
i don’t care whether this is a bug, or it’s just really difficult to delete data, either way it’s a fail. iPhones aren’t exactly richly endowed with storage, and in this case, not being able to access the filesystem directly, is clearly a disadvantage. If you prevent users from messing with files, you better offer alternative and reliable ways for them to delete data.