UIImageJPEGRepresentation taking huge memory

Question

i'm trying to figure out this problem but failed after doing every thing i found on OS or google. Problem is that when i convert UIImage to NSData using UIImageJPEGRepresentation or UIImagePNGRepresentation it increases the memory size to 30Mb (believe me or not).
Here is my code

myImage= image;
LoginSinglton*loginObj = [LoginSinglton sharedInstance];
NSError *error;
NSData *pngData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, scaleValue); //scaleVale is 1.
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsPath = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; //Get the docs directory

self.imageCurrentDateAndTime =[self getTimeAndDate];
 self.filePathAndDirectory = [documentsPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Photos Dir"];

NSLog(@"Documents path %@",self.filePathAndDirectory);
if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] createDirectoryAtPath:self.filePathAndDirectory
                               withIntermediateDirectories:NO
                                                attributes:nil
                                                     error:&error])
{
    NSLog(@"Create directory error: %@", error);
}
self.imageName= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"photo-%@-%@.jpg",loginObj.userWebID,self.imageCurrentDateAndTime];
 NSString *filePath = [self.filePathAndDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:self.imageName];

[pngData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES]; //Write the file
[self writeImageThumbnailToFolder:image];
[self writeImageHomeViewThumbnailToFolder:image];  

I have tried following solution as well UIImageJPEGRepresentation - memory release issue
1- Used @autoreleasepool
2- done pngData = nil;
but still facing that memory issue.

EDIT I think i'm not able to convey my problem. It's ok if UIImageJPEGRepresentation taking huge memory,but memory should back to it's earlier position after saving that image. Hope this will help you in detail.

Answer 1

Use a scaleValue of less than 1. Even 0.9 will massively reduce the memory footprint with minimal quality loss.