iPhone users upset when new iOS resurfaces old pics they thought they deleted

iPhone customers are “completely freaked out” after discovering a bug that makes deleted images reappear. Apple’s iOS 17.5 replace was solely launched on Monday, however netizens are already reporting points with their gadgets.

iPhone customers report worrying picture error

“Simply accomplished the replace,” the iPhone consumer defined in a Reddit post. “When in dialog with my associate, I went to ship an image and noticed that the newest photos had been NSFW materials we’d made years in the past once we had been residing aside,. However WTF? It was completely deleted years in the past however magically its again?”

It wasn’t simply intimate photos, both. With greater than 500 upvotes, it quickly grew to become obvious that this was a typical downside amongst iPhone and iPad customers. “Identical right here,” one Redditor stated in response. “I’ve 4 pics from 2010 that maintain reappearing as the newest pics uploaded to iCloud. I’ve deleted them repeatedly.”

Whereas a 3rd pointed to the potential safety implications this might have: “Isn’t it a extremely massive factor? I imply, Apple is a privateness advocate, but when deleted information aren’t actually deleted after so a few years. How can we belief it?”

Of the quite a few Reddit customers who encountered this challenge, a typical theme was these images exhibiting up in smartphone house owners’ latest gallery. However does this imply that Apple isn’t truly deleting consumer images when it says it does? In that case, that could possibly be an information disaster, however the reply is perhaps extra easy than that.

Particularly, it’s attainable that these deleted images merely didn’t sync with iCloud on the time of deletion which in flip might imply it was by no means deleted correctly within the first place.

Nonetheless, that doesn’t clarify why iPhone and iPad customers are encountering images deleted years in the past. Coupled with the latest challenge with iPhone alarm clocks not going off, Apple have a variety of making as much as do to revive customers’ religion of their merchandise.

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