Are you all finding these under All Photos, as the most recently added ones I am guessing? Just with the original dates.
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Troubling iOS 17.5 Bug Reportedly Resurfacing Old Deleted Photos
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now I have to delete all my n*des again!
I suspect you are right.
That’s the bug I reported for a couple years that existed into iOS 17 but I gave up requesting fixed.
Basically the system shows the expected free space, but you go to do anything and it says it’s full.
I found it to be photos that were imported, saved or downloaded and then deleted didn’t actually delete, but were still in an import folder you could view with third party software — as if the files were copied to photos but the task copied, not moved, and it didn’t delete the source.
Importing in macOS behaves that way— but users can see the files so they can choose to delete the original then.
Mine were under recents.
I have as an example, a folder labeled Tahoe (from a trip). While a few of these showed back up, they were only under Recents. Tahoe remains empty.
Could this be related to the Messages app never actually deleting f all since iOS forever ago in combination with the shared with you feature?
I'm starting to believe that anything we do is on the net somewhere. Someone or something is hoarding all our data.
Deep Thought, the computer from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy has it.
Of course they are. Nothing gets deleted. All these companies are tied into spy ops for Alphabet agenices. ALL of them.
Well, you're not wrong, but at this point, in this day and age (and for some years now), we all should know that there is no such thing as deleted.
If we want deleted, until we can effect the change we need in regulation, it is incumbent on us as users to use only local, OSS systems of which we have full control.
Which means no i-anything, no cloud (that you don't self-hosted) anything.
I'm not saying it is good. I am not saying it is right. I am just saying it's reality, that you gotta run a full self hosted stack if you want a delete function, and that we should expect that there is no delete until the economics of infinite storage and monetization of our personal information fundamentally changes (I'd like this, but I am also not holding my breath), and that "if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself" really applies here.
If we want deleted, until we can effect the change we need in regulation, it is incumbent on us as users to use only local, OSS systems of which we have full control.
Which means no i-anything, no cloud (that you don't self-hosted) anything.
I'm not saying it is good. I am not saying it is right. I am just saying it's reality, that you gotta run a full self hosted stack if you want a delete function, and that we should expect that there is no delete until the economics of infinite storage and monetization of our personal information fundamentally changes (I'd like this, but I am also not holding my breath), and that "if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself" really applies here.
There is no worse argument than this. Basically you are saying "How dare we want better!"
We dare......
I would agree except for the fact that everyone here never has anything positive to say about Apple, its leadership, its products, its software, its policies. Nothing satisfies MacRumors commenters. So I would ask again why still buy from the company? Why do you?
The thousands of dollars we spend on their products is the positive thing.
I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this with investigative reporting from iJustine and Rene.
Can you expand on that thought? Not seeing it especially for long term deleted items.
I assume nothing is deleted.
I don’t work for one of the big tech companies, but a smaller company and we don’t delete anything. When something is “deleted” - we really just change a Deleted column in the database to true.
Yes, I’m sure Apple releasing an overpriced rainbow watch band and featuring some diversity in their ads is a big factor on why there are cracks in quality.
I feel like Apple isn’t sure whether to play it safe or be disrupters, which screws with their focus.
I had something like that. My spouse sent me a photo via iMessages (I think it was just an image of something at a store) but what came through was a photo of some random person’s child. I replied, "Why'd you send me a picture of a random child?" We quickly figured out it was some sort of "crossed wires" glitch. It never happened again, thankfully. I just deleted the image (it was a cute kid!) and moved on.This isnt as bad as a couple years ago when OTHER PEOPLE'S PHOTOS randomly showed up in my library (I wasnt the only one, either)...
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