[HN Gopher] The iOS bug that made deleted photos reappear
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       The iOS bug that made deleted photos reappear
        
       Author : gnabgib
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-05-23 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | Grimeton wrote:
       | I love how everyone talks about "deleted pictures". Those
       | pictures were never deleted in the first place and just got
       | marked as "don't show to user anymore".
       | 
       | That's all there is to it.
       | 
       | Apple, like all the other cloud companies does not delete
       | anything.
        
         | noahtallen wrote:
         | I don't think so. Firstly, there's this:
         | https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cwgljj/regarding_the_...
         | 
         | Secondly, there's the iOS changelog that mentions corrupted
         | files re-appearing.
         | 
         | Finally, if you have iCloud Photos turned off (as many do),
         | nothing is getting saved to the cloud, and there's no benefit
         | to Apple keeping it on device.
         | 
         | You're suggesting that no picture in the photos app is ever
         | truly deleted, and implying that Apple uses this for some
         | nefarious purpose. But there's no evidence for that.
        
           | Grimeton wrote:
           | The whole article on Reddit is a farce and contradicts
           | itself, and don't insinuate things that haven't been said.
        
         | fckgw wrote:
         | This issue had nothing to do with iCloud.
        
       | sparker72678 wrote:
       | > Based on this code, we can say that the photos that reappeared
       | were still lying around on the filesystems and that they were
       | just found by the migration routine added in iOS 17.5. The reason
       | why those files were there in the first place is unknown.
        
         | abracadaniel wrote:
         | Their conclusion also links to a plausible theory that it is
         | from images that were also stored in Files due to a variety of
         | factors. This analysis proves the images were imported after
         | incorrectly doing a full filesystem scan for images. Hanlon's
         | razor may apply.
        
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