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Spatial Anchors - how to view/delete in profile/privacy
I am saving Spatial Anchors to my cloud profile. I am storing their UUIDs separately and trying to remember to clean them up. But I'm worried sometimes I am losing the UUID and accidentally leaving a...
Ok - just over 24 hours later. For my un-shared anchor stored both locally and in the cloud... the cloud anchor worked all day today until the 24 hours was up and then stopped loading. The local anchor was available all day and did NOT stop loading after 24 hours.
So - regardless of whether you share it or not, if you store it in the cloud its only valid for 24 hours. If you store it locally its only available to you, but it persists until you delete it (assumedly... time will confirm that hypothesis), clear the app data, or delete the app.
Thanks heaps for your reply!
24 hours would be fantastic. So would an option during creation to expire after 24 hours.
However I have my doubts if that's true. Isn't Meta trying to pitch some grand vision of hanging paintings on your walls and weather apps on your kitchen bench using shared anchors? Surely the paintings don't disappear after 24 hours?
I share your doubts - why auto-delete an anchor that you saved to the cloud for your own use? But I also find it hard to believe that they would let you create all these anchors and not give you no way to delete them when you didn't save the uuid AND not have a way to free up the resources automatically somehow. Your "delete after 24 hours" save flag is a great idea. It seems to me that the spatial anchor API is still being designed, and they just haven't finalized how to enumerate them securely. I'm excited to start coding with the spatial app stuff in your physical space - It's exciting to think of all the possibilities.