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iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted
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After reading some of this thread a had a look to see if a phone I saved was still there. Sure enough it had gone from my recent but was still i photo stream .
Wow, I have never seen so many bugs in an Apple OS/device before. Is the software getting that much more complicated?
Maybe, but it's also a fragmented OS that can't get any version to have remotely close to mainstream adoption, has a bunch of trash companies that modify and repackage it under their own crappy brand, and is riddled with 50x the malware of iOS so I think I'll stick with the iPhone
Also a bicycle doesn't ever have problems with its air conditioning system but you don't see me posting in the Porsche forums about it
No idea if this is related, but I appear to have lost 200-300 photos when I upgraded a 2016 SE to a 13 Mini. Both devices now have the same photo count, but a backup prior to the transfer shows more pix. I also went looking for a screenshot I took the end of August and it's not on either phone. I use Photosync to backup all pix to a computer so they are not gone completely, but they are definitely off the phones.
I’m glad I don’t do iCloud backups, nor store my photos on iCloud.
Apple lost the plot way back in 2013 and still haven’t turned it around. It’s because the only thing they care about is Wall Street. Nothing will change while Wall Street and MBA management is in charge.
Apple lost the plot way back in 2013 and still haven’t turned it around. It’s because the only thing they care about is Wall Street. Nothing will change while Wall Street and MBA management is in charge.
You're touching on my #1 question: is this bug retroactive to threads that were deleted PRIOR to upgrading to iOS 15? In other words, is the absence of a link from previously-saved photos to a messages thread going to cause even legacy photos in my library to disappear?
If so, that's a MUCH bigger problem than what is stated by the author which at least has a workaround.
That is a very serious issue. Hope Apple fixes it very soon. iOS 15 seems to have many bugs. I will not be upgrading from 14 immediately.
I'm not sure but after I upgraded to ios 15 they literally got deleted without me doing anything.
Onedrive is a syncing system, not really billed as backup. If one or more photos are deleted or damaged locally, aren't they deleted in Onedrive, too?
As far as I can tell, (after some testing) photos saved prior to ios15 are safe. If you go to the meta data, all photos saved in ios14 say “saved from messages” photos prior to ios14 have no meta data on where they came from. Only photos saved from ios15 are having the issue that say “shared from messages”
What? Have you used Apple products before 2020? There have been major issues for releases even more than a decade ago. Like I said before, Catalina was broken for me too a point where I couldn’t even use it. Apple confirmed it was an issue on their code after hours of discussion with support. Promised a fix was coming. And now it’s stable.
But you cannot guarantee that this specific bug is a result of working from home which people here are doing. Apple’s quality has been a roller coaster for a long time now. How is blaming this one specific big on work from home valid?
With your scenario, we don’t know if the guy died of a headshot or not.
Yes, but they weren’t this bad. I don’t recall a time when people discovered multiple bugs every day for 10 days straight and counting.
