Pictures from Surveys on Local Device

[RussellSturm]

In survey123 when attaching photos/pics to a survey it appears they are stored on the local device in 

\ArcGIS\My Survey Attachments.   After submitting a survey they are not removed so the amount of pictures in that folder appears to grow and grow.   Based upon limited available storage on local devices we are concerned with what will happen long term.

Is the survey submit function supposed to remove the pictures associated to the survey being submitted?

Is there a setting that cleans up this directory? 

Is the cleanup something we have custom code within our app? 

Thanks for any input or guidance you can give.

[JamesTedrick · Accepted solution]

Hi Russell,

The current design is to retain the photos in My Survey Attachments after submittal.  Currently, there is not a method to delete photos from within the app.  It is possible on non-iOS platforms to delete photos by using other file-browsing tools.

[JonathanWhite]

Perhaps uninstalling survey 123 and reinstalling it as a workaround on iOS platforms? Has this issue been addressed yet? 

[fklotz]

Currently there is an option to "Delete Sent Surveys" from the device in the Survey123 App Storage settings. However while this option deletes the sent surveys from the on-device database, it does not remove the attachments associated with those surveys.  In some cases, it is leaving behind gigabytes of attachments in a location which the end user is not aware of. There is an existing enhancement request to address this "ENH-000159494 : Survey123 - Add an option to the field app that allows the users to batch delete the attachments of all submitted surveys stored in the device." For now, the only option appears to be for folks to manually remove the attachments via the Files App on the device.  I have not yet tested if deleting the App removes the orphaned attachments.