They should be deleted. Keeping old pictures is a waste of iCloud space.
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Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 With Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug
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Oh trust me Apple and Timmy are ******** themselves right now over all this.
Previous comments are so correct im not even commenting.
I think Apple is extremely focused on making sure we don't lose data in our photo libraries. If a past bug resulted in orphaned files, restoring them is a good thing. Previously deleted photos can be deleted again.
If the bug that caused them to be orphaned is fixed, this will delete them for good, theoretically. I mean who knows what's actually going on in their servers.
Either way don't put stuff in the cloud that would cause you huge problems if it leaked, I say.
Ouch. Database "corruption" that can somehow bring data back from "deleted". Whoops.
Your comment pretty much covers it so I'm not even gonna reply
New update with a bug fix and a new bug, ready to be patched on iOS 18 with more new bugs on the way
Too focused
When I want something deleted from my own library, they need to delete it everywhere
Nothing else is acceptable
It's not up to Apple to decide for me to keep my data when I want it deleted
Class action lawsuit coming, pony up Apple 🍎 💰
You actually think Apple is about great products? Since SJ left its all about marketing and money. The old school are all ousted.
Because anything you delete isn’t actually wiped from your device, whether it’s a file on your computer or a photo on your phone. It’s marked as deleted on the operating system level, and opened up as free space for new data to take its place. Somewhere down the line, something’s been messed up in the Photos app, causing this.
If you’ve ever used Disk Utility on a Mac and seen the faster vs. more secure option when erasing a disk, that’s what this is referring to. It’s faster to just mark everything as deleted on a disk, as opposed to putting several cycles of garbage data to cover up old files. And, I seriously doubt the Reddit rumor is true because I believe iOS creates and throws away an encryption key for everything on a device before it’s erased, so a new user wouldn’t be able to just stumble upon old photos.
"What is uploaded to iCloud stays forever in iCloud"
That’s unacceptable. They need to provide a detailed explanation of what the nature of the issue was and what actually happens when a user deletes a photo.
Were there such instances? If properly wiped, and not tied to an AppleID, I would be curious how that were even possible.
The "Recently Deleted" folder in Photos says it can be up to 40 days for files marked as deleted to be "permanantly deleted." Or is this "bug" taking local copies flagged as deleted on physical storage and unflagging them? I mean, writing zeros to storage to fully delete anything will add to device wear. Is that maybe what's going on here? Not defending Apple, but all the recovery software out there basically does this, looking for flagged files that have not been overwritten yet. This could even be happening on iCloud servers.
People who claim they have someone else's photos appearing are clearly lying.
it's definitely people who saved RAW or original files into their photo library but didn't know until now when they heard supposedly 1 Redditor who already deleted the made up post and went ahead to check on their library.
yeah I'm sure out of the 10,000 photos you have in your library, you found that 1 photo you didn't recognize so fast.
it's definitely people who saved RAW or original files into their photo library but didn't know until now when they heard supposedly 1 Redditor who already deleted the made up post and went ahead to check on their library.
yeah I'm sure out of the 10,000 photos you have in your library, you found that 1 photo you didn't recognize so fast.
So what if an old phone can’t even update to iOS 17? Or the person who now has it chooses not to upgrade? Do our eggplant and peach pics stay on their phones in that case?
I think this is code that is still intact for the still-to-be implemented photos scanner Apple wanted to introduce and combat child pornography aka take away privacy. Hence photos are never gonna be deleted. I have a cousin working at Apple legal and he says they gonna change the license agreement to introduce new guidelines that users cannot have the right of their own data on Apple made products.
Or it happened and Apple just isn't as perfect as some people think they are.
Don’t think I have any old d*ck pics, but it was just safer for me to wait for 17.5.1