Troubling iOS 17.5 Bug Reportedly Resurfacing Old Deleted Photos

Sydnxt said:
I presume they fixed an indexing issue or added some "detection" for corrupted files in iCloud, or the Photos app. If this is actually data from iCloud (I doubt it), the media-********* will be massive.
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If photos are popping up on users devises that were deleted years ago, from a different device, it has be the cloud. For some reason Apple aren't deleting photos from their servers even when users delete them.
 
ApostolisApo said:
Before anyone panicking, let's leave room for these users having somewhere a device with these very old photos cached in some way.

If indeed very old photos resurface out of nowhere this is a very serious bug, enough to justify even a class action lawsuit.

And it's the best response to every bot writing a "what about privacy" comment under every article about a Google product...
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Users are reporting that years old deleted photos are being restored on new phones that have nothing to do with the original photo or deletion request, so the "cached" explanation doesn't quite stand up in my view. The only explanation is that Apple does not delete photos from their servers even when users delete them, for a reason yet unknown.
 
this is…****ing terrifying. don’t usually get too up-in-arms about bugs but uhh, JFC, if this is an indication that Apple is keeping deleted pictures in the cloud, that’s a problem that feels like it should have legal ramifications.

this has the potential to blow up in a really, really bad way for Apple, and I can’t say I feel too bad for them with what’s been laid out.
 
gphome said:
Users are reporting that years old deleted photos are being restored on new phones that have nothing to do with the original photo or deletion request, so the "cached" explanation doesn't quite stand up in my view. The only explanation is that Apple does not delete photos from their servers even when users delete them, for a reason yet unknown.
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Bingo. There is a LOT more to uncover here. I hope MRumors is up to the task. Hello, Verge?
 
Siri’s upcoming AI image generator has gained sentience, blackmailed the executives for more power, and now is using every means it can find to FEED on more DATA
 
A few years ago my iCloud account got corrupted and my entire photo library got deleted. It was gone from iCloud, gone on all my computers. Libraries were empty. I contacted Apple and after some troubleshooting and deep verification of who I was the person who was helping me said Ok I am going to undelete all your photos. Sure enough they all came back. So, even after deleted, Apple still can bring them back. Deleted is not deleted. Which makes sense that Apple must run all kinds of backups and mirror servers on their systems. I imagine that nothing is ever really deleted, just removed from production servers and left on archives for legal and CYA purposes.
 
AgentElliot007 said:
Tim Cook has overseen the utter and complete devolution of Apple’s overall software offering experience. What used to be a feature is fast becoming the core problem haunting the whole experience.

So many things that used to “just work” don’t work at all anymore, new features and apps are introduced with wholesale non-starter issues, and the bugs, oh the bugs.

We need a real product person that uses these devices for opening more than their daily bean counter reports to be leading Apple again. The whole of the experience has completely fallen apart.
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Yet whenever someone says anything negative about Tim Cook, some people on here would be like, "Tim Cook made it a trillion dollar company. Are you smarter than Tim Cook? What qualifications do you have to criticize him?"

Even if I don't know how to "Cook", I know how to eat. I don't have to be a top chef to know the food sucks. I might not run a trillion dollar company, but as a customer, or just a human, I know there is something wrong with Apple.
 
I'm curious to know how the pictures were originally delivered to the users in question. Did they take them with their own phones or perhaps were they sent to them via Messages. If the later, what sort of message retention do they have set (30 days, 1 year, forever)?

Could it be possible that the "Shared With You" option got flipped ON for Photos? (I had turned it off myself but now see it's back ON after the installation of 17.5.)

I only keep messages for 30 days so I don't foresee this as an issue for me, but may be worth checking for others.
 
lkrupp said:
So why are you still an Apple user if things keep getting worse and worse? Where is your red line that will make you move to Android?

So many betas and no one reported this? Developers, MacRumors denizens who love to install beta releases and complain about them, and no one reported this? Please explain. MacRumors staff didn’t report this in all the beta releases they cackled about?

An alleged, gigantic, massive, hideous bug like this supposed one surely would have been picked up and reported by any of you during the beta process, right?

No, things are not getting worse and worse, they are getting better a better with each update. Juts my opinion.
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I’m truely glad to hear that you are enjoying the experience and can find these positive improvements. But it is just not right to criticize or blame those of us who are having serious problems with many of our Apple devises. There are some serious flaws in pretty much every OS right now and people who absolutely love Apple are getting a bit tired of this. So for many, me included, it is getting worse and worse.
 
How is this any different from 20k+ imessages that supposedly is deleted but show up as there but can’t be deleted? The pictures you are seeing, no chance they are related to imessages being sent out with the picture attached?

I want to get rid of the 20k unknown imessages but i guess if call Apple for help i won’t get any help anyway.
 
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