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So they admitted to it. Funny cause people who would defend Apple for literally anything were saying it was made up. They claimed the reddit user deleting their post proved it was fake.

No, that was a different issue. Everyone acknowledged that deleted photos being restored was real, but the Reddit post claimed their photos reappeared on a phone they erased, reset, and sold. That was always suspicious and the post being deleted just confirms it was probably BS.
 
Having photos reappear on my own phone it's different that having them appearing on someone else's phone. I understand this bug fix is related to my own phone and probably something to do with iCloud too. But the guy saying his photos were appearing on an iPad he sold it's completely fake.

Edit: it's actually not related to iCloud, but it's a bug in the Files app.
How do you know that Reddit poster’s claim was fake? Did he say he made it up?
 
And... people pay for iCloud?

How many of them had their photos in there because some update re enabled photo uploading without permission btw?

Hard to say for certain absent a statement from Apple, but sounds like this has nothing to do with iCloud.
 
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What about deleted photos appearing on my Mac? My gut tells me these deleted photos are still stored in iCloud. I have images appearing that I deleted two Macs ago. These images are coming in on my M3 Max MacBook Pro. Does anyone else have this same Syndication.photolibrary?

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Database corruption is at least a plausible explanation; if the iOS version added better ability to fix broken databases, the flip side of potentially bringing back lost photos that had undesirably disappeared is resurrecting photos that still existed in the corrupt entires but shouldn’t have.

BUT… if reports that this also pulled out photos from devices that had been reset using Apple’s tools, then that indicates that they’re just emptying the database instead of deleting it and generating a new one. Which is extremely wrong, and not how that should ever work, both from the perspective of not maintaining a potentially corrupt database, and leftover bits of information in it or its directory storage structure.

In Mac terms, you delete a user account folder and can reasonably expect everything in it to be gone. Apparently iOS is doing the equivalent of keeping the user account folder and even its internal databases, and just doing a “delete all” command on their entries.

That’s bad practice.

The other possibility is that the corruption was on the server side and this is a sync issue, which is even worse, since it indicates an ability to sync to a device not authenticated with that account.

Edit to add: Given that there was only a single report of photos reappearing on wiped devices, and the poster deleted it, the more reasonable situation is looking most likely, which is that the report of photos reappearing on correctly-wiped devices was not accurate, in which case database corruption makes much more sense, and the is is also, in relative terms, much less egregious. Whether that report was due to the person not actually having wiped the device correctly, simple confusion, or intentional dishonesty, who knows.
 
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The bigger and more pertinent question is; what happens to the photos that have reappeared on phones that have been wiped and sold/given to others? What if they had already saved some of those photos that are of delicate nature? Not saying every wiped phone had this problem, but there should be some solution for those cases too.
It didn't happen that is what.
 
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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

The most likely explanation is that the photos was stored both in Photos and Files (not necessarily knowingly by the user). When someone deleted it in Photos it was still there in Files. The bug was an indexing problem where iOS saw the photo belonging to Files and made it show up in Photos.
 
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We don’t. But considering it was a single report out of the hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there, and it has since been deleted, it was probably fake. Or just wrong.
But why would Apple bring awareness to an issue to millions of iPhone users in the form of an immediate software update where this is listed as the only bug it addresses in response to a single Reddit post?
 
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So what will you do? Move to Android?
Or just be angry and complain?
What's the point?
I'm not moving to Android. As I showed earlier, I'm well into the Apple ecosystem and I despise Android.

But at the same time, Apple isn't perfect and people need to stop acting like they are.

It shouldn't be 100% back Apple at all times or switch to Android. What kind of nonsense thinking is that?
 
I'm not moving to Android. As I showed earlier, I'm well into the Apple ecosystem and I despise Android.

But at the same time, Apple isn't perfect and people need to stop acting like they are.

It shouldn't be 100% back Apple at all times or switch to Android. What kind of nonsense thinking is that?
No one claims they are perfect, bugs happen, Apple fixed the bug life goes on ...
 
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