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Hi there,

let me share the piece of code with you, that finally solved my memory issues!

//this is my ViewController.h

@interface myViewController: UIViewController <UIImagePickerControllerDelegate> {
UIImagePickerController *picker;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) UIImagePickerController *picker;

- (IBAction)openPhotolibrary:(id)sender;
- (void)useImage:(UIImage *)image;

@end

//this is inside my ViewController.m
- (IBAction)openPhotolibrary:(id)sender {

	if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary]) {

                //Now this seems to do the trick. The picker only gets allocated once. Therefore no memory issues any longer!
                //Before I did it this way, my app crashed after picking 25 images. This one still was OK after picking about 50 images.
		if (picker == nil) {
			picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
			picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
			picker.allowsImageEditing = YES;
			picker.delegate = self;
		}
		[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
	}
}

- (void)useImage:(UIImage *)image {
   //add code to use the picked image
}

- (void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)CurrentPicker {
    //hide the picker if user cancels picking an image.
	[[CurrentPicker parentViewController] dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

- (void)dealloc {
    [picker release];
    [super dealloc];
}

Hope this helps.