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iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Photos on Wiped, Sold Devices [Updated]

Every person that called this out as fake can hang their heads in shame.

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drunknbass said:
lol bro really?
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I am not your bro, and yes, really. This thread is about pictures showing up from other people's account, which was never proven and likely just a reddit troll.

Yes, this bug that is being fixed (old deleted pictures of your own account showing up again) is still bad, not saying it isn't. But still a whole other level than getting someone else's pictures on your device!
 
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Arctic Moose said:
Unless you have turned on Advanced Data Protection your iCloud photos will not be encrypted at rest.

The more worrisome aspect is that deleted photos ser obviously still accessible.
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From Apple's documentation;

Every time a file on the data volume is created, Data Protection creates a new 256-bit key (the per-file key) and gives it to the hardware AES Engine, which uses the key to encrypt the file as it’s being written to flash storage. On A14 through A17 and M1 through M3 devices, the encryption uses AES-256 in XTS mode, where the 256-bit per-file-key goes through a Key Derivation Function (NIST Special Publication 800-108) to derive a 256-bit tweak and a 256-bit cipher key. On A9 through A13 and S5 through S9 devices, the encryption uses AES-128 in XTS mode, where the 256-bit per file key is split to provide a 128-bit tweak and a 128-bit cipher key.
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Of course, if this issue stems from iCloud photos, then it's a different issue entirely. iCloud never 100% cooperates.
 
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1984 said:
I noticed that the people saying it happened to them (where they’re seeing someone else’s photos) just so happened to join today. Hmmmm.
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Not everybody uses macrumors. I haven't posted on here in ~10 years until this bug affected me.
 
h00ligan said:
Reddit user removed post


Likely when they received notice from apple legal that if they couldn’t 100% support their assertion they’d be sued into oblivion, as they would be if they mentioned they’d received such a letter.

Probably it wasn’t true, but I don’t doubt for a second the corporate apple would crush anyone mentioning it, if they weren’t 100% sure. Which I suppose is somewhat fair given the insane fallout this could have.
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I edited mine because I didn't want to be in these dumb tiktok videos. Plus clearly some people believe what they want even after evidence was presented. 'database corruption results in images reappearing' from Apple is pretty damn incriminating.
 
Maybe the person on Reddit received too many messages and therefore deleted their post. It doesn’t mean their claim is a hoax.
 
I have had that happened to me before (but not this OS update, I have no problem with this update), which led me to believe Apple keeps a copy of all our photos even after we deleted them.
 
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