=== Background === In IOS5.1 moved these files from the "documents" folder to a "cache" folder, which meant they may get purged when the system decided memory was geting tight. To get around this, we implemented a manual backup/restore plugin (CDVLocalStorage). (I was not here for this work, piecing history together.)
With IOS6, Apply added a new UserDefaults option (WebKitStoreWebDataForBackup) to backup these files onto iCloud, with the side effect of having persistant local storage without the need for our backup hacks/plugin. ======== Initially I used this new IOS6 feature as a means to get persistant localstorage (there was a bug to add that when I started contributing). However, its actually been against apple policy to store these files in the documents folder, and user apps are being rejected from app store, see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1561. More importantly, I don't think we should want to backup these files to a users' iCloud just to get persistant storage. I think we should re-enable the plugin used for ios5.1 on ios6 and not backup to iCloud. This may have perf implications but no more-so than we have already been dealing with until now (and which I haven't benchmarked). What do others think? There are other means to fix the current issues and continue to use the next setting, so we do have options here.
