Streaming movies taking up memory in iPad

I had the same issue but I've found an easier way to solve it.

Go to Settings and then 'Usage' in General.

Under Usage it will show you how many gb are allocated to each app. Video will be near the top.

If you tap on video it will show you the movies / tv shows that are in storage.

I then tapped edit (top left of screen) and the usual delete buttons popped up. You know the minus in the red circle.

There you go. Delete the videos you need to move off and voila.

I am having a similar problem with streamed videos that I exited before watching in its entirety. The only work around I have found is to reopen the video, skip to the end of the video and let it play all the way out. You might want to try that and see if it helps you.

It seems that when you're streaming the videos, they are actually cached on your phone, but the cache won't clear out unless you "watch" the whole thing.

(I am using an iPhone 4s...don't know if that makes any difference.)

This answered my question why I don't see the cache taken up space on my iphone, but a huge chunck of space were taken out on my ipad. I started watching a few movies but didn't finish watching them on my ipad; but finished the entire movie on my iphone.

But if you really want to delete the cache manually, you can do so by going to Setting>General>Usage, wait till the top loads the local usage info, next to the "video"app it should say how much space the app used, click/open it, and it will list the cache by movie name, you can then swipe to delete the data/cache. I just free over 8GB of cache on my ipad 3.

Hope this helps.

How do tell which videos have been started but not finished? When your kids take your ipad amd start several different movies but dont finish any thru the end of the credits, but i dont know which ones they played. I am missing almost 9gb of space? Thanks

I've tried going to end and it's only freed up a little bit if space. This is making me crazy. Any help would be much appreciated.

see also:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5515788?start=15&tstart=0

Yes thank you so much rlmonera, that perfectly works in clearing out iOS video streaming data. Actually it's easier than skipping to the end of the movie.

Method 1: When you stream a movie from the Video app with iCloud, the movie begins playing over your wifi network and downloads to the device at the same time. If you are able to finish the movie without interruption, the movie will be added to your usage summary under General, Usage, Videos in the Settings app, and you can delete it from there.

Method 2: However, if the movie freezes like when your wifi disappears, or if you don't watch the full thing, you can't delete the cache data in Settings. To delete the cache, close the Video app by double clicking the Home Button, then swipe up to close the app. Next, go back to the very same movie and start streaming it again. Once the movie starts playing where it left off, swipe the progress to the beginning of the movie timeline. This deletes the cache and starts downloading the movie again. After the first few seconds, stop playing the movie and close the Videos app again. Then if you go back to your usage settings, the space the movie used will be freed up.

This works with downloaded videos, but there is no option to clear the cache of streamed video content. If you stream a video from the cloud, it takes up space in the app data without showing the title and offering a delete option.

Very easy solution. I had the same problem. In iTunes and App store in my General Settings I signed out of my Apple ID then signed back in. That freed up all the memory that was taken up by movies or tv shows in video. I just regained my missing 12GB of memory.

I've also recently encountered this issue on my iPad Air running iOS 7.1.2.

However when. Went to the settings > usage screen the video app displayed "No Data" which was confusing.

I found that an easy way of finding out what cached items you have on the device is to turn on Airplane Mode, go to the video app and see what items are returned; I had 8 TV episodes returned, even though I'd only streamed them and not technically downloaded them (they still had the cloud/download button next to them..).

I Cleared some extra space, then downloaded them. I could then delete them using the usual right-swipe delete option, turn the idevice off/on and found I'd manage to reclaim the Missing space. Hope this helps

i have had the same problem for a while. I had 200MB in memory left and followed an advice to "sign out" of my itunes account and turn on the ipad. Once i did that, i had 20GB in memory available for use. Try this and see if it helps 🙂

Kristen240's post worked for me. Just sign out of itunes and sign back in. Reclaimed 30+GB of space on my iPad.

Yes this does work but you then have to wait for all your purchased videos to show up in your video app again which can take a long time.

It does work but like I mentioned about. Your video app then takes forever to fill up again which means you can't really stream anything like the next episode in a series etc.