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iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted

WaterOz said:
Whoa. I just noticed that now that you pointed it out. I literally was using less than half of my 256gb on my 12 pro max, to the point where I almost downgraded but then decided to keep it at 256gb. According to my iPhone right now, I only have 25gb of free space. What??? How is that even remotely possible. Something is screwy somewhere.
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Yeah, digging in further it's my photos. I now have 163.66gb of photos on my device. It's like it redownloaded all of my photos in full quality to my device instead of the typical leaving most of them on the cloud. There must be a way for that to reset other than restoring from an older backup
 
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zorinlynx said:
I wonder if this is connected to the "Shared With You" feature.

I turned that off as soon as I could, but Photos saved from Messages still say who they are from and "Shared with you" when you swipe up to show details.

Now I have to find the dozen or so photos I've saved since upgrading and make sure I have a separate copy of them until this is fixed. This is ridiculous.
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Pretty sure the “Shared With” functionality and noticing in the photo metadata the app every photo is saved from (which can’t be disabled), is all part of the CSAM strategy.

I just want a photo app that holds photos. I don’t want Shared With, I don’t want extra metadata, location, facial scanning, OCR text recognition. On device processing doesn’t matter if the results of the processing are still shared.
 
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For those of us who have double photo storage, just went and checked in the apple support forums. A number of people there reporting it as well. The one thread I just joined there said support is aware and that they are working on a fix for a future update. Seems like maybe their optimize photo storage solution is borked in iOS 15 on the 13 Pros at least.
 
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Don't get where all of these bugs are coming from. Was on the public beta since beta 2 and thought it was really smooth all the way through. Really curious as to why things fell apart on the final.
 
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sorry to flex but we've told you it would happen.
 
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Yes! My girlfriend took a video of her cat with her new 13PM, and we were blown away with the Cinematic Mode in HDR, so she messaged it to me, and it wasn't as nice, so she airdropped it to me, and it was great. Later I wanted to show the two versions to somebody to show off HDR videos vs. non-HDR, and the messaged version was gone. This explains it!
 
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GMShadow said:
Is this the real reason Apple made it so easy to stay on 14 this year? They knew 15 was likely to be a disaster?
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This time round Apple have also encouraged people not to update to iOS 15, hiding it at the very bottom of the update screen as an “option”.
 
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Yeah, I had been running the 15 betas on my 12 pro max with no issues. All the issues for me started with moving to the 13 pro max. Which, none of them have been show stoppers, but it seems like something went wrong somewhere in all of it. I'm sure they'll all get fixed, and so far nothing has totally ruined my new phone experience... but some of the bugs are surprising.
 
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MacRumors said:


A serious bug in the iOS 15 Messages app can cause some saved photos to be deleted, according to multiple complaints we've heard from MacRumors readers and Twitter users.

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If you save a photo from a Messages thread and then go on to delete that thread, the next time an iCloud Backup is performed, the photo will disappear.

Even though the image is saved to your personal iCloud Photo Library, it appears to still be linked to the Messages app in iOS 15, and saving it does not persist through the deletion of the thread and an iCloud backup.

To replicate this bug, the following steps must be taken:
  1. Save a photo from a Messages conversation to your Camera Roll.
  2. Check to see that the photo has been saved.
  3. Delete the Messages conversation the photo came from. The photo will still be in your iCloud Photo Library at this point.
  4. Perform an iCloud Backup, and the photo disappears.
This is a concern because most users keep the iCloud Backup feature enabled and it's something that happens automatically. If you're someone who regularly deletes message threads, if there's a photo that you want to keep, you won't be able to keep it with iCloud Backup turned on. We tested this bug on an iPhone running iOS 15.1 beta 2 and had our photo deleted after deleting the Messages thread and performing an iCloud Backup, so the issue has not been addressed in the current beta as of yet.


Until this bug is fixed, if you've downloaded photos from the Messages app, you'll want to make sure to keep those Messages conversations and not delete them to prevent them from being automatically removed from your devices.

(Thanks, Chad!)

Article Link: iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted
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Perhaps if you mail photo to yourself from messages and then save it this may not happen
 
MultiMediaWill said:
All these bugs are a result of working from home. Harder to collaborate on these types of issues. I'm all for working from home, but these bugs are the compromises.
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No I bet you they created a link with Messages and the Child Safety features.
Nothing to do with working from home. I had massive issues on previous OSX and iOS versions where everyone was in the office.
 
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As someone who does development work, this is pretty bad. Those should be two completely different storage areas. I bet some dev thought they were clever by saving storage space with links from the Messages app to where it’s stored locally, and that’s probably where I would start debugging. Then when it’s deleted the backup process just gets the entire file list and runs that through to clean it out, even if they are just links to local files elsewhere. Yikes.
 
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Apple should just go and release iOS Pro, iOS Mini and iOS Air. Just take a page from Windows – because that went so well.
 
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goonie4life9 said:
What in the world are y’all talking about? Apple just introduced the “most pro iPhones we’ve ever produced,” and iOS 15 allows you, “to do more with iPhone than ever before.” It is simply not possible for iOS 15 to cause things that used to work to not work because Apple says iOS 15 is the most powerful, most advanced iOS they have ever released.
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Underrated comment of the year
 
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