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What is the incorrect behavior that you are experiencing?

We are experiencing an issue with the Google Maps iOS SDK where excessive logging causes the cache to grow uncontrollably during continuous camera updates. Our app continuously updates the camera position in MapView based on the device's GPS and compass readings. This setup has led to the creation of substantial log files in the cache directory CCTClearcutLogger, resulting in crashes for some users as the cache grows beyond 2GB.

This issue has been observed across multiple devices and iOS versions, notably on iPhone 12 mini running iOS 18, where the cache growth is approximately 2MB per minute during constant map updates. The rapid cache growth, likely due to each camera update being logged, eventually creates single large files that the SDK seems unable to handle.

Current Impact

This logging behavior results in excessive storage consumption and crashes for our users as the cache reaches unusable sizes.

What should happen instead?

There should at least be an option to disable the logging.

Demo application

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Create a new iOS project and integrate the Google Maps iOS SDK.
2. Implement a basic MapView.
3. Set up the MapView to rotate by 1 degree every 10ms.
4. Print the cache directory size (CCTClearcutLogger) to the console every second.

Environment details

• Operating system version: iOS 18.1.1
• Google Maps SDK for iOS version: 9.0.0 (also tried with 9.1.1)
• Hardware model: iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 14 Pro, several iPads