With new iOS 7, video streaming takes up phone's capacity

Thank you too gnprice!

No problem! Just wanted to share that alternative solution to a hard reset.

Thank you gnprice! I have a 4th gen iPad with 32GB and amazingly all of my space was gobbled up. In iTunes, it said "Other" was consuming over 20GB. Interestingly, in the iPad's settings, under Usage, the Videos app was showing "No Data."

iBrowse, thankfully, told a different story. I had 20.8GB of M4V files, clearly shards and fragments of partially downloaded movies and/or shows. I deleted them all, and got my space back!

It would seem to me this is definitely a bug. iOS should provide users with a means of purging the video cache, or perhaps auto-purge if the user doesn't watch/finish the item in question after X number of days. I hadn't watched any videos on my iPad for a couple of weeks, and the space never came back on its own.

So iBrowse was definitely the answer!

Logging out and restarting iTunes worked for me.

Hi there,

indeed ibrowse was gave me 38GB other sotrage "back. Happy about that but apple should find a proper solution. I buy a lot of movies on itunes, but the purpose was to see them whenever i wanted trough stream.. Something that is impossible right now.

Worked for me. Thx

This is a bunch of crap that Apple hasn't fixed this problem yet!

It a great way for them to loose customers to Android. I have always like iPhones because of simplicity, Since IOS 7+ it's been crap! I or we have spent a tone of money in iTunes Store... To be treated like this is i'm unacceptable! FIX it Apple! Please, it's been way to long & and it cost me money because I didn't know my iPhone 4S 64gig was still good with no free space. I purchased a new iPhone 5s because of it!

sorry about the spelling errors spellcheck apparently got me a few times also. I think I made my point, and everybody can understand.

Thank you to all that came up with some fixes, I tried all of the and got some space back. Have not tried iBrowser yet, that's next I guess.

I just used ibrowse to delete and free up the space (almost 19Gigs) that was taken from steaming movies & TV shows from icloud. This was the way to go, I have to say I was very uneasy about downloading the App not knowing if it was safe (virus free) I did run my own virus scan on the file and it turned out ok. I will run another virus check now that I have installed it. I will update you if I get anything bad, if not then use it. Its the easiest way to regain your space lost. I tried all the other ways listed in this forum. resetting your iPhone is a pain in the ***. Apple needs to fix this ASAP! Thanks for the helpful info and the link above, use the link for the correct software. There are other apps that have a similar names. Use iKnock's link you will be fine. It's on Page 3 I think...good luck and let me know if it works for you or you have any problems. Thanks

I've had this afflict 3 of our family iPhones so far. It's the worst of the iOS 7 bugs, and that's saying a lot. Once the cache overfills the phone I have to backup, "restore" (wipe) then restore (restore).

I tried deleting the CloudAssets media with a different app, but it didn't quite work. So far only a full wipe works reliably. Next time I'll try changing the iTunes AppleID to see if that forces a cache purge.

We need a fix from Apple. There are hundreds/thousands of discussion posts full of misleading advice on this topic. It's a bug, we need a fix.

I do wonder if its worse for people who stream Apple Store media and also sync to iTunes, or whose iCloud ID is not their Apple Store AppleID.

Just so everyone knows. I just updated to 7.0.6, and it did NOT fix the issue. I started a movie with 1.7 gb of space on my iPad 2 streaming from iCloud. It downloaded almost the entire movie and ran out of space. Of course it wouldn't let me finish the movie because my iPad was "full". I checked the usage and was now at 0. Usage showed no Videos on the machine. I connected to a PC and using iPhoneBrowser, I cleared the /cloudassets folder and now I have 5.1 gb of space available.

Yay, Apple!

David <-- This guy is losing faith in the company.

I too have been having the same problem. I found that by changing the start from setting to "from beginning" instead of "from where left off" frees up the memory right away when you exit the movie.

I'm SO tired of this ****** bug. There are 6 iPhones in my family and I am fed up with wiping and restoring when they run out of storage.

I wonder if the bug is worse for people who sync via iTunes vs sync via iCloud.

I'd pay for an app store app that would flush the ****** CloudAssets cache, but I doubt the app would get approved.

If you sync the videos to the device using iTunes or download the videos directly ob the iPhone/iPad, you won't have this problem.

Yeah but it's not a solution. I want to stream my movies because I don't have enough space to download all of them. As you see there is no point in streaming if I have to download the movie anyway.