Bulk delete captured photos and videos *within iOS app
Why has this not been implemented? I don’t want to make a trip to the host machine—physical or virtual—to dump the captures. Swiping individually to delete in the app is stupid and annoying.
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Manually deleting captures is not recommended at all: there may be thousands of files created per day, and deleting manually is time consuming, whether you can select multiple files or not. With enough storage, it's completely unnecessary, and storage these days is cheap. Much better to simply let SecuritySpy's auto-deletion function (as configured under Settings > Storage) do all the work for you automatically.
Since manual deletion is generally unnecessary, and the vast majority of users don't do it, we have decide to focus our development efforts elsewhere, on features that have more general appeal. Adding bulk delete to the iOS app is not trivial from a UI perspective.
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You could have skipped the entire first paragraph of condescending / pedantic commentary about what is “recommended" or "completely unnecessary" or how "storage these days is cheap" and just used: "...we have decide [sic] to focus our development efforts elsewhere. Adding bulk delete to the iOS app is not trivial from a UI perspective." That is useful information relevant to my question.
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I find that it's often useful to convey context and background for our design decisions, please give me the benefit of the doubt that I'm trying to be helpful rather than condescending. We are far more open to user feedback than most software companies (there's plenty of public evidence of this on this forum), so if you can put forward a valid use case for what you are proposing (i.e. significant advantages of manual bulk delete beyond using auto-delete), we are far more likely to seriously consider investing the development time to make it happen.
