Happened on my secondhand iPhone too, Apple messed up badly. When Apple said what you do on your iPhone stays on your iPhone, they really meant it. Because Delete doesn't delete, it just saves the photos somewhere else.
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Troubling iOS 17.5 Bug Reportedly Resurfacing Old Deleted Photos
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Happened on my secondhand iPhone too, Apple messed up badly. When Apple said what you do on your iPhone stays on your iPhone, they really meant it. Because Delete doesn't delete, it just saves the photos somewhere else.
One photo did surface in the photo picker while in another app, but it wasn’t one I deleted. It is in my library, but some date data might’ve been corrupted. The photo has a date stamp of June 2023 (which is correct), but shows up as the second most recent picture in the in-app photo picker, but not in Library or Recents in the Photos app.
did you get your own photos back or the original owner's?
Either is bad, but one is even worse.
Just now starting to believe that? Where have you been?I'm starting to believe that anything we do is on the net somewhere. Someone or something is hoarding all our data.
Add my name to the list. Upgraded today and a bunch of deleted photos have resurfaced in my Recents. I don’t use iCloud for photos, messages, or backups. If I were to guess, these photos must have been in the photo database all along and only the pointer to them was deleted. This is going to be a mess to clean up.
So I have been using a company given iPhone 14 as my main device until January 2024 where I got myself an additional 15pro max- I want to keep job and private things separate and also a pro model iPhone.
During the setup of the 15pm I transferred my data from the 14 to the 15 via the QuickStart function-not using the iCloud though but the direct transfer as described here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210216
I do not use iCloud Photos or iCloud backup because I don’t trust cloud services. All my devices share the same Apple ID.
After everything was transferred I did not wipe the iPhone 14 but deleted everything not needed for my job including my personal photos stored locally on that phone manually.
Last week I updated my IPhone 14 first, then one day later my 15pm. When I read about old deleted photos coming back I thought that this is limited to users who use the iCloud. Still I checked my 15pm and in my recent photos I found a file which was not an image but showed “large thumbnail” as text. The information of that file which can be shown inside the gallery was not helpful and I just deleted this file. Then some time later after this and other threads blowing up I got bugged more and more and then remembered to check my 14 too. Remember I deleted every photo after transferring everything to the 15pm in January.
And there again I could see the “large thumbnail” file and additionally there was a screenshot of my home screen I probably took accidentally last year and deleted immediately. Then I went through the gallery of my 15pm and found exactly that screenshot with the identical time stamp. So on both phones the same screenshot came back and I believe the file was not deleted properly last year on my 14 and then transferred in that state to my 15pm. The latest update made that screenshot reappear on both phones.
Additionally I have an iPad Pro which I had not updated yet. Therefore I deleted every photo I had on it, made sure that the files are also deleted from the “to be deleted in 30 days” section, restarted the device once and then ran the update on it.
One screenshot I again must have taken accidentally on the iPad returned.
During the setup of the 15pm I transferred my data from the 14 to the 15 via the QuickStart function-not using the iCloud though but the direct transfer as described here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210216
I do not use iCloud Photos or iCloud backup because I don’t trust cloud services. All my devices share the same Apple ID.
After everything was transferred I did not wipe the iPhone 14 but deleted everything not needed for my job including my personal photos stored locally on that phone manually.
Last week I updated my IPhone 14 first, then one day later my 15pm. When I read about old deleted photos coming back I thought that this is limited to users who use the iCloud. Still I checked my 15pm and in my recent photos I found a file which was not an image but showed “large thumbnail” as text. The information of that file which can be shown inside the gallery was not helpful and I just deleted this file. Then some time later after this and other threads blowing up I got bugged more and more and then remembered to check my 14 too. Remember I deleted every photo after transferring everything to the 15pm in January.
And there again I could see the “large thumbnail” file and additionally there was a screenshot of my home screen I probably took accidentally last year and deleted immediately. Then I went through the gallery of my 15pm and found exactly that screenshot with the identical time stamp. So on both phones the same screenshot came back and I believe the file was not deleted properly last year on my 14 and then transferred in that state to my 15pm. The latest update made that screenshot reappear on both phones.
Additionally I have an iPad Pro which I had not updated yet. Therefore I deleted every photo I had on it, made sure that the files are also deleted from the “to be deleted in 30 days” section, restarted the device once and then ran the update on it.
One screenshot I again must have taken accidentally on the iPad returned.
Thats basically how I see it, but its why I ask. I'd rather ask someone a question then assume something.
SOMEWHEREI'm starting to believe that anything we do is on the net somewhere. Someone or something is hoarding all our data.
I’d never heard of this!
That guy from TPC has the perfect 💩 eating grin at “how ‘bout that? I forgot to introduce myself.” And those eyes… almost a Heaven’s Gate style stare.
Looks like a fun watch. Thanks.
This confirms my suspicion that it is indeed a file app related issue as described in the reddit thread
From the ios community on Reddit: Regarding the iOS 17.5 Photo Glitch;
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I wrote about this in another thread on here:
Post in thread 'Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 With Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-reappearing-photos-bug.2426950/post-33151693
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If the file App theory is true are the restored Screenshots Not supposed to be additionally currently inside the files app ?This confirms my suspicion that it is indeed a file app related issue as described in the reddit thread
From the ios community on Reddit: Regarding the iOS 17.5 Photo Glitch;
Explore this post and more from the ios community
I wrote about this in another thread on here:
Post in thread 'Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 With Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-reappearing-photos-bug.2426950/post-33151693
They are not, and they have never been there from what I remember. At least from what I Can See in the front end
But …. How does this explain pics deleted before Files was launched that were “resurrected”?
The US Congress is a little distracted with get rich quick schemes for themselves ATM, not to mention rubber stamping the Il Cheeso’s dictatorial agenda. as US democracy transitions from dysfunctional to farcical.
Apple isn’t woke, they just did a tiny little something for a moment or two to counteract the anti-gay biases and phobias in the tech world. they’re as neoliberal as any other corporate giant in or outside of the tech industry.
this is true.
i’ve done screen sharing sessions with senior support engineers at Apple many times showing how broken Apples iCloud sharing UI/UX is even when sharing between Apple users.
compared to Dropbox or pClouds one click “copy a shared link” features Apples five or six click bs where you have to create a note or SMS or email to yourself just to create a url destination for the file it’s dumb but even that would be ok if the links worked for other users.
as a sharer of files with cohorts of users i work with i learnt long ago to avoid Apple calendars and iCloud file linking because it is too unreliable. every year or two i’ll try again and while Apple might have fixed one show stopping bug they have introduce three more bugs. i just noticed yesterday that there’s been some more work on it and seems to be improved recently but have locked the tyres too hard yet.
when sharing with non-Apple users iCloud links are still a PITA. they need to make an icloud account just to access the file that im paying a premium to Apple for hosting with some of the most expensive hosting on Earth. and with all that it doesn’t make life easy for recipients and very often i get reports from IT savvy users who say the link isn’t working.
given the profits and margins Apple commands, it’s inexcusable in my book. greedy and incompetent board members and VC’s who clearly do not GAF about their users.
remember when Jobs tried to buy Dropbox and the private owners just said “no thanks”. who built the superior cloud file sharing service? the tiny startup or the richest tech corporation on Earth?