Of course it can be rare. If a rare bug has (or can have) serious consequences for users or Apple, they'll push it out.
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Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 With Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug
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Of course it can be rare. If a rare bug has (or can have) serious consequences for users or Apple, they'll push it out.
Well:
1. He was the only person that has experienced that bug.
2. He responded by stating that he works as a tech support, while his other reddit posts from only a couple months ago says he's in college in a completely different unrelated field.
3. He stopped replying comments of people who were actually trying to help him, and at the end, he deleted the post.
Someone in the comments that actually works for tech support, said this:
It wouldn't. The Reddit post in question claimed their photos reappeared on a phone they erased, reset, and sold. Every other report involved photos reappearing on the same device/iCloud account, which is what this update addresses.
Because once the photos were recovered they were then uploaded to iCloud as "new" photos and synced across devices.
This attitude is weird to me.
You're implying that nobody should criticize Apple. That they should praise Apple 100% of the time or switch to something else. Well more than implying since you outright told me to do that.
Neither Apple or iOS deletes your photos immediately. Apple says it can take up to 40 days depending on a few factors.
In this case I'm pretty sure it wasn't a deletion bug, but an instance where photos was (logically) stored several places. Thus the photos were never deleted because they were still active for at least one part of iOS or app.
Jesus these comments are 95% ignorance driven by conspiracy.
Are we really going to do this? The stable releases don’t have “all these bugs”. This is one bug that one Reddit user documented. The media had a field day with it, queue the worldwide outrage. They fixed it within a few days. It had no effect on me and I seriously doubt it had an effect on you either, or in any of the folks who have filled up eight pages and counting with snarky comments.
But by all means, you’re perfectly entitled to comment about it here all you like. I’m also entitled to respond with my views too. Peace!
That's not what conspiracy means.
Exactly. I'm not sure I understand this "bug". When we delete the photos and those photos are either past the 30-day window or we indicate "delete forever", we expect those photos to be truly deleted forever and not able to return no matter what.
So is this "fix" actually just covering up a feature in which while the user thinks it's deleted forever, it's actually still living in iCloud for a very long time and could be un-erased by administration? That's not acceptable, if that's the case.
Falling in line and not questioning anything Apple does is beyond silly. Most of these comments aren't freak outs. They have very valid concerns over a very strange incident. These aren't conspiracy theories. They are rooted in the shady behavior Apple has exhibited in the past. Apple doesn't tend to admit anything until they've been caught redhanded. They are not a moral company. They've actively fought against bills that would reduce slave labor in China. Any "privacy" related services have been stripped from iPhones in China. Apple has moved all of their iCloud servers in relation to Chinese citizens to China so the CCP can have full access to anyone's data. They remove any and all apps China requests to remove from the App Store if it doesn't align with China's agenda. They've given half a trillion dollars to the Chinese government to stay relevant there. You having this weird vendetta against anyone that criticizes Apple in any capacity is strange.
They just like to throw that word around for funsies.
Deletion normally just removes the file index until the space is needed, so the bug restored those orphaned files. Overwriting every deleted byte before it is required for other data would cause unnecessary writes and shorten the lifespan of the volatile storage.
Some of us has a pretty good idea what happened.
The photo was never deleted on the device because the photos was used by at least two apps (or similar). Thus deleting the photo in the Photo app wouldn't cause iOS to delete it from the device since there was still one more app needing the photos.
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If it makes them look good it's widespread. If it makes them look bad it's rare. If it makes them look criminal it's fake news.
You can believe whatever you want. Tons of people believe in crazy snake oil stuff. But just a few people on the internet claiming that's what happened is not for me.
I'm looking for the official communication from Apple. If it is that simple why won't Apple come out and explain it. Did they start hiring Contractor's friends as their spokesperson?
I don't throw around the whole "class action lawsuit" thing often, but this really needs to be one. Not being certain that what we deleted is really deleted is a huge breach of trust.
Yeah but reports state some of these photos were years old… Apple has no excuse, it plainly IS keeping old deleted photos for years on its servers, to me that’s a breach of privacy. And Apple have basically admitted it with this patch.
You have no idea what happened because you don't work for Apple in any capacity and your knowledge of the situation is entirely based on what you just made up in your mind. Your explanation is also ridiculous and doesn't align with any explanation given anywhere on the internet except the comment you just made. It's also wrong.
I'm pretty sure it isn't an iCloud issue, but an issue with the file/photo database on the device itself.
No. None of us have any idea what happened.
Lots of speculation though and excuses from people that think they are on Apple's PR team.
You say it as if that is the truth. Even if we assume the Files apps is one way to cause the Photos to come back, is there any proof that no other ways the Photos are being stored? Did you audit Apple's source code to find out there are no other possible triggers of the bug?