Really creepy iOS 7 bug verified by friends

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  1. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

    striderida1 macrumors newbie

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    Go to this link and hold down on the picture of the tshirt and "save image" http://www.zazzle.com.au/im_retired_go_around_me_tees-235254538814063058 . Now go into your photo album and look what's there. It's putting pictures in my photo album that I deleted over a year ago?! My friends tried it to and got the same thing. Does this mean apple is secretly storing our "deleted" photos?!
     
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  2. kolax, Dec 14, 2013

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    Wow, that's quite a serious bug! I've been hitting 'save image' multiple times and I'm getting every deleted photo back. Of course the photos will be recoverable until that disk space is overwritten, but being able to do it so easily is worrying.

    Update: I got 10 deleted photos back before it just started putting in black/blank images. In fact, it's just the preview I can see on those 10 photos, if I open the image, it's black.
     
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  3. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    I know right?! I deleted some of those pics over a year ago! I sent this to CNN too. Talk about privacy concerns!
     
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  4. Tubamajuba, Dec 14, 2013

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    This is a really serious bug... but wouldn't Apple be in a better position to fix this than CNN?
     
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  5. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    This looks a little too intentional...Apple may very well have did it on purpose...
     
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  6. Xiph0s, Dec 14, 2013

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    Yeah...wtf....
     
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  7. jacobss, Dec 14, 2013

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    They're thumbnails.
     
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  8. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    What's even worse is that i have done a military wipe on my phone this fall. So this leads me to believe that these images might be being pulled from some remote location or something? I could be totally wrong though.
     
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  9. mcfly88, Dec 14, 2013

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    Anyone else try this on 7.1? Only getting a black image
     
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  10. macigo, Dec 14, 2013

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    Hmm that's weird. And where is the image of the t-shirt that was saved?
     
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  11. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    Wen off it's just thumbnails, it's still a huge privacy concern. Imagine getting someone's used phone and being able to pull up their old images.

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    The t-shirt image didn't save that's the odd part. Funny tshirt I must say by the way lol.
     
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  12. kolax, Dec 14, 2013

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    Interesting. Did you do a restore from backup?
     
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  13. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    Actually i didn't. I was having a separate issue at the time and a suggestion i got was to not restore from backup. I forget what it was now but i remembered it solved my issue. Also an update: One of my friends is still using IOS 6 on an iphone 4 (i know..he needs a new phone, i tell him all the time) and it actually happens to him too. This tells us that this bug has been around a long time...
     
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  14. richardbb85, Dec 14, 2013

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    lol wtf
     
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  15. Alrescha, Dec 14, 2013

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    http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...nails-in-ios-7-photos-app-dates-back-to-ios-5
     
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  16. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    Oh wow, that's even worse if Apple knew about this long and never patched it since IOS5.
     
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  17. BuCkDoG, Dec 14, 2013

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    Wow thats insane. I just tried this bug and definitely is a serious bug that needs attention.
     
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  18. GreyOS, Dec 14, 2013

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    Yep can reproduce. Only thumbnail, black image when viewing in full.

    I'm guessing there's something weird about this image. Not that it isn't a fault in iOS though. Just that if I save an image from other websites it works fine.

    lol @ people saying this may be intentional. Yes, it was totally intentional not to save the image you wanted to and instead resurrect a deleted photo. *roll eyes*
     
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  19. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    By intentional the fact that is saves the thumbnails even when deleted from the phone. Not the bug that harvests the hidden thumbnails. It's not hard to believe these are held in some sort of hidden cache for law enforcement purposes intentionally.
     
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  20. grubworth, Dec 14, 2013

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    what the ****? **** this. this needs attention and needs to be sorted (like as if it will).
     
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  21. PNutts, Dec 14, 2013

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    :rolleyes:
     
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  22. Am3r1ca16, Dec 14, 2013

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    Whoa thats surprising!

    Is this only for the devices on iOS 7.1 beta 2?
     
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  23. 007p, Dec 14, 2013

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    I have tried it everyway I can think of, on my iphone 5 running 6.1.4, I only get a black thumbnail + image...so doesn't work for me, possibly doesn't work in ios 6? Possibly an ios 7 thing?
     
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  24. Alonso Quijano, Dec 14, 2013

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    Saving pictures that do this to Dropbox reveals that the background image is maintained even when saved outside of the camera roll
     
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  25. striderida1, Dec 14, 2013

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    This is on all iphone versions going back to IOS 5 even...I haven't tested it on the new beta yet.
     
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