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iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (www.theverge.com)

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iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone.

Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5, their deleted photos — some quite old — are popping up again, according to a Reddit thread that MacRumors spotted.

People reporting the apparent bug say that they’re seeing old photos appear in their Recents album after Monday’s update.

iOS does give users the option to restore deleted photos, but after 30 days, they’re supposed to be permanently removed.

The person who started the thread claimed that NSFW photos they had deleted “years ago” were back on their phone.

Computer data is never actually “deleted” until it’s overwritten with new 1s and 0s — operating systems simply cut off references to it.

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