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Apple has supplied extra particulars in regards to the nasty iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced outdated and deleted images for some iPhone customers. The corporate rolled out iOS 17.5.1 earlier this week to patch the bug.
For the reason that bug resurfaced images from way back to 2010, some believed this was occurring as a result of iCloud Photographs secretly saved their deleted images. Nonetheless, Apple has shot down such theories in its rationalization.
Nobody had entry to your resurfaced footage
Apple’s official launch notes for iOS 17.5.1 state that it addresses a “rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted.” The corporate has now additional defined the difficulty behind the bug to 9to5Mac.
Apple says iCloud Photographs had nothing to do with outdated and deleted footage resurfacing for some customers. As an alternative, a neighborhood database corruption brought on the difficulty. It clarified that iCloud Photographs by no means synced images that weren’t solely deleted from the machine.
So, why did some customers see images from way back to 2010 resurface on their iPhones? Apple says a earlier iCloud Backup or device-to-device switch when switching iPhones might have restored the corrupt footage.
The corporate emphasised that resetting an iPhone or iPad fully erases all knowledge from it. It famous that the uncommon bug solely affected a small variety of iPhone customers. Extra importantly, nobody aside from the machine proprietor, together with the Cupertino big, had entry to the resurfaced footage.
Apple additionally confirmed {that a} Redditor’s declare of outdated images resurfacing on an iPad they offered to a buddy was false.
Be sure that to delete all of your outdated images
Keep in mind that updating your iPhone to iOS 17.5.1 gained’t routinely delete the resurfaced footage. As an alternative, you have to delete them manually. After that, be sure that to take away them from the Lately Deleted album within the Photographs app.
Apple rapidly rolled out a patch to repair the bug that led the Photographs app to resurface outdated footage. However such a bug, no matter how uncommon it’s, shouldn’t have occurred within the first place. Regardless of understanding the technicality behind the bug and the way NAND storage works, such points can shake person confidence.