The overreaction in this thread is insane.
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Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 With Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug
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If you don't understand how caching and database work maybe you should start there.
So will this update remove my nudes from my mother-in-law's phone?
1. Don't tell me how to behave
2. That is STILL not acceptable
Apple needs to explain themselves here
Amazing how many "brand new" forum accounts always swoop in to defend Apple
explain exactly what library was corrupted and where. there is tons of speculation here that i would like ironed out
The issue is that they didn't do a check for the user using the phone if that's what occurred. If I have a deleted picture re-appear on my phone, that's annoying but not the end of the world. The problem is I've traded in my previous few phones and trusted the "wipe device" option. Now potentially all my pictures are out in the wild, and I'll have no clue whether this happened or not.
Considering how much of a marketing effort Apple put into recycling devices recently, they have a bit more to answer to regarding this issue.
According to apples description of the update, they label it as “rare”. It can’t be that rare if they pushed out an update that fast for all users. Damage control and story spin is well underway
They didn’t ignore it… “addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted.” It’s a simple data corruption bug, that was flagged last week and fixed today. Funny things these bugs, it’s like developers don’t know they exist until they’re fine 😱
You wouldn't understand it if they did otherwise you wouldn't ask that question.
Stop feigning outrage over inconsequential nonsense. This is getting tiring.
It always is ...
When you wipe the phone it wipes everything database corruption or not especially since the database is in YOUR iCloud. There is zero proof of photos reappearing on devices after being logged out. Just a single person on Reddit - aka not a reliable report
it absolutely can be rare but social media magnified the problem so much, Apple felt the need to address it.
remember antenna gate? yeah. was not an issue for everyday use, but apple made a whole presentation on it.
customers are just constantly overreacting these days.
So it was true!! Do not know why deleted pics years ago come to life. These have always been on Apple servers, indeed.
You just have to trust them. No proof or explanation needed.
and what exactly are you going to do with that information?
They literally could release a detailed analysis of everything they did to track down the issue and fix it and you would still not believe it, so why does it matter?
This is actually a pretty acceptable source of evidence, going on MacRumors news commenter standards.
Except it was already proven this had nothing to do at the cloud.
"Rare issue" is the Pro version of "A small number of users.".
That story was deleted by the source after it was posted, most likely because it was made up.
That is not always true.
A project I was involved with used Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure to host many millions of images. These storage services automatically made at least 3 copies of every uploaded image in a local data centre, and the content of each data centre was lazily replicated to a region in another country for resilience. That's a lot of image data.
Image deletion was one of the things we did, and these storage services hosted by Amazon and Microsoft certainly provided that capability. Almost always reliably.
But, in an arena where millions of command message requests are flying around, things can go wrong. We certainly had instances where our (massive) metadata database had deleted records with corresponding images still being stuck on a cloud server somewhere.