Setting uiimage to nil doesn't release memory with ARC

Question

I have a scrollview that shows different images as it\'s scrolled through the pages, like PhotoScroller. I\'m using ARC. When someone scrolls to another page, I set the im

Answer 1

The UIImage's for the pages are all held in an array.

The UIImage's are not being deallocated when you set the UIImageView's property to nil because the array is still holding a reference to them. As for the memory growth, it may be something else that is being allocated. I'd suggest taking a look with Instrument's object allocation instrument to track down what exactly is growing as you scroll.