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Apple has offered extra particulars concerning the nasty iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced outdated and deleted pictures for some iPhone customers.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 pictures from way back to 2010, some believed this was taking place as a result of iCloud Images secretly saved their deleted pictures. Nevertheless, Apple has shot down such theories in its clarification.
Nobody had entry to your resurfaced photos
Apple’s official launch notes for iOS 17.5.1 state that it addresses a “uncommon challenge the place pictures that skilled database corruption may reappear within the Images library even when they have been deleted.” The corporate has now additional defined the difficulty behind the bug to 9to5Mac.
Apple says iCloud Images had nothing to do with outdated and deleted photos resurfacing for some customers. As a substitute, a neighborhood database corruption prompted the difficulty. It clarified that iCloud Images by no means synced pictures that weren’t completely deleted from the system.
So, why did some customers see pictures from way back to 2010 resurface on their iPhones? Apple says a earlier iCloud Backup or device-to-device switch when switching iPhones may have restored the corrupt photos.
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 apart from the system proprietor, together with the Cupertino big, had entry to the resurfaced photos.
Apple additionally confirmed {that a} Redditor’s declare of outdated pictures resurfacing on an iPad they bought to a buddy was false.
Be certain to delete all of your outdated pictures
Do not forget that updating your iPhone to iOS 17.5.1 gained’t mechanically delete the resurfaced photos. As a substitute, you have to delete them manually. After that, be certain to take away them from the Lately Deleted album within the Images app.
Apple shortly rolled out a patch to repair the bug that led the Images app to resurface outdated photos. However such a bug, no matter how uncommon it’s, mustn’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.