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

[ric22]

Aaaaaand another reason Apple should offer fair amounts of storage- for under 10 bucks they can give us 1TB minimum in every device- that's how cheap it is!! Then people could go back to not relying on the cloud if they didn't want to.

 

[Gengar]

Yeah. They’re probably working overtime to patch this by Monday.

 

[Gengar]

Can you imagine some person’s nude photos showing up on a pre-owned phone.

Can’t believe I paid $450 for a used iPhone and there are pictures of some man’s butthole in the Photos app.

 

[applefanboysince93]

What happens on iPhone STAYS on iPhone…

Forever!!!

 

[Maclver]

Yeah. They’re probably working overtime to patch this by Monday.

I can see the release notes now

Fixed rare bug issue that affected Photos App

or like every other iOS Developer

We made changes to make things even better

 

[n-evo]

Not surprising at all. Developers never check their work and rely on QA to find bugs. But QA engineers are often a level or three levels lower in their knowledge of the code base, which explains a never ending stream of bugs, some are silly, but some like this one, are not. It takes extreme focus and a culture dedicated to security to ship a quality product, which almost no company in Silicon Valley has.

No but there are a lot of people outside of Apple actively searching for security risks.

 

[mrr]

Yikes! This is scary.

 

[Pezimak]

My auto updates are off and I refuse to install this pathetic excuse if an update till they sort it out!

 

[therunningman]

Well that's nice.

 

[vmac556]

This why i dont use icloud

 

[hajime]

Can you imagine some person’s nude photos showing up on a pre-owned phone.

That is a new feature.

 

[SanderEvers]

Hope nobody took photos of their passwords.

Honestly if you take photos of passwords you should have them stolen. Because that's just beyond stupid, use a password manager!

 

[DMG35]

I’m truly shocked that someone could F up this bad at Apple. Can’t wait to see the ad that Samsung comes up with for this one.

 

[yustas]

I wonder how this is happening, and how it can be fixed? Does iOS delete the actual pictures, or just say "This space on the SSD can be overwritten," and then restoring the pictures?

It's an old security rule but worth keeping it in mind: If you want a 100% guarantee that nobody will see a picture, don't take it.

 

[mystery hill]

My auto updates are off and I refuse to install this pathetic excuse if an update till they sort it out!

If the person you sold your phone to has already updated, they may be seeing photos in your iCloud library now.

 

[multicore]

And here I was going to trade in my old iPad when the new M2 arrives. Now what?

 

[redbeard331]

No more selling old iOS devices!

 

[mystery hill]

Honestly if you take photos of passwords you should have them stolen. Because that's just beyond stupid, use a password manager!

Next article. “iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Passwords on Wiped, Sold Devices”

 

[GREEN4U]

This is why I never trade in my old products. Saving $100 isn't worth not having peace of mind.

 

[redbeard331]

I’m truly shocked that someone could F up this bad at Apple. Can’t wait to see the ad that Samsung comes up with for this one.

First Samsung ad released on *Adultsite*.

 

[verdi1987]

Knowing nothing more than what is presented in this report, I would recommend everyone enable Advanced Data Protection immediately. If the data is end-to-end encrypted then you should be safe from whatever major bug is allowing old devices to pull these photos.

You would be safe going forward, presumably, but without knowing why the photos are resurfacing, we can’t be confident that ADP would stop this bug on devices in the wild that you no longer own.

 

[Maclver]

Next article. “iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Passwords on Wiped, Sold Devices”

or even worse.....

"iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Restore Browsing History and Immediatly Trasnfer to All User's Contacts"

 

[yustas]

No but there are a lot of people outside of Apple actively searching for security risks.

Yes but it isn't easy to find a needle in a haystack. Besides, searching ≠ finding.

 

[Blackstick]

Phantom pénîs by Apple.

 

[benedetti]

All your photos belong to us


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