Mail storage of attachments

Anyone else notice this issue? Before upgrading to iOS 9 beta, my mail application would store attachments (mainly audio files) in the phone forever without having to re-download them later. Now, I'm noticing that it only holds attachments for a day or so, sometimes less depending on how many restarts, then clears them off - meaning I have to download them again when going back to the e-mail.


This is an issue for two reasons. 1) It absolutely destroys my data plan when I have to keep re-downloading attachments in big numbers and 2) Some applications, like Spotify, are smart enough to pull from downloaded mail attachments to play local playlists. Without stored files this functionality is broken.


Thanks for any thoughts. If it makes any difference, I'm using a Gmail account.

Hi Codex,


Well I don't know why your iDevice is doing that - my iPhone 6 plus on iOS 9 B4 isn't, fwiw.


Could iOS 9 be uploading the audio files etc to iCloud storage by any chance? (easy to check from iCloud.com or from a Mac...)


Max.

Mine started doing that as well starting with the public (non beta) release of ios 9 and it's still happening with 9.0.2.

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