Long ago deleted messages suddenly reappear after installing 26 on my 16pro

[Baritone_Guy]

Anybody else see this? I upgraded my phone yesterday. Had already done the iPad and was seeing weird things in which I would block and delete messages still appearing on phone.

However upgrading the phone surfaced a much bigger problem. After the upgrade there were dozens of threads that in some cases were deleted a long time ago and had never been on either the tablet or the phone before suddenly reappearing.

The only way to me this is possible is that Apple is still saving these things even after I explicitly agreed that I knew they would be deleted when I did it.

WTF Apple?

 

[StumpyBloke]

Mentioned multiple times in the beta threads for iOS 26.

 

[teeshot44]

Happened again when I restored one of my phones from 26 B5 to 18.6.

 

[UliBaer]

You know, only Meta, Google and Microsoft are intensely hoarding your personal data, even, if you delete it! 👿

...and you know, Apple would never ever do this - even never think about it! 👼

/s

 

[papbot]

With various new releases I see old messages appear frequently. Some can be almost a year old. I just take this to prove that in the digital era nothing is truly deleted no matter what anyone tells you. The only certain way is to write it down on paper then burn it when you're through.