Hi there, first post so please go easy on me!
Situation;
I have an iPhone running ios12 and a Macbook running 10.10.5. The iphone backs up Whatsapp to the iCloud. The phone isn't backed up itself, either by iCloud or USB/iTunes. I have shared photo albums on the iphone, but I don't use any of the other Photo backup options to the cloud. (No iCloud Photos or My Photo Stream)
Problem;
I installed Disk Drill (free version) to see if I could get back an accidentally deleted file. When I was looking through the previews of the photos it could recover, I found hundreds of small (100pixels) thumbnails of photos sent and received on Whatsapp. There were also some full size photos. How on earth did these get on to my Macbook? Some of them were very recent, some went back a long time. As I said, the phone hasn't been backed up to this macbook, and I don't backup the camera roll to the icloud. None of these photos were in the shared photo album, so I have no idea how these files got on to my computer. Please can someone help explain how this has happened? It seems like a bad idea from a security point of view.
Thanks in advance!
Situation;
I have an iPhone running ios12 and a Macbook running 10.10.5. The iphone backs up Whatsapp to the iCloud. The phone isn't backed up itself, either by iCloud or USB/iTunes. I have shared photo albums on the iphone, but I don't use any of the other Photo backup options to the cloud. (No iCloud Photos or My Photo Stream)
Problem;
I installed Disk Drill (free version) to see if I could get back an accidentally deleted file. When I was looking through the previews of the photos it could recover, I found hundreds of small (100pixels) thumbnails of photos sent and received on Whatsapp. There were also some full size photos. How on earth did these get on to my Macbook? Some of them were very recent, some went back a long time. As I said, the phone hasn't been backed up to this macbook, and I don't backup the camera roll to the icloud. None of these photos were in the shared photo album, so I have no idea how these files got on to my computer. Please can someone help explain how this has happened? It seems like a bad idea from a security point of view.
Thanks in advance!
