On Tuesday, Apple pushed the official update of iOS 17.5, which not only added a new "rainbow light" wallpaper, but also opened up web sideloading for EU users, added a "repair mode", and tracked abuse alerts, among other things.
But in just 2 days, a major bug was revealed by users who have upgraded to the new system, according to the feedback of some iPhone users, after upgrading to iOS17.5, the photos deleted many years ago appeared in the Photos app bizarrely.
Embarrassing moment: the surprise return of an old photo
One user recalled: "I was chatting with my partner and wanted to post a photo, but suddenly I found that the latest photo was actually an intimate photo taken during our long-distance relationship a few years ago, which had obviously been deleted, and the same problem occurred when checking the iPad (some artworks created a few years ago), which was too disturbing." ”
The same is true for other users, who keep seeing photos from more than a decade ago appear in iCloud's recently uploaded photo list, and are caught off guard by distant hits. Imagine how embarrassing it is when you are excited to update the system and open the photo album to see what new features are available, only to find some embarrassing "indescribable" old photos in the column, and they also show that they were recently uploaded to iCloud. What's even more devastating is that some netizens said that they have repeatedly deleted these photos several times, but they always come back.
Possible causes: System bugs or clouds?
It is reported that the general iPhone photos have a similar Windows "recycle bin" function, when users delete photos, videos, these data will be moved to the recycle bin (saved for 30 days), instead of being deleted from the phone immediately. However, this is clearly a serious bug, and Apple has not responded to it at the moment, and some users have speculated that iOS 17.5 may have caused the problem due to changes to photos that required re-indexing of the photo library.
The first thing you need to understand is that when we delete photos on iPhone, we don't completely erase the photo data from the device's storage, but it is similar to deleting files on the computer, but the files are marked, which means that this part of the storage space can be overwritten by other data. Until the photos are completely overwritten by the new data, the original photo data remains stored in the device's storage.
The editor speculates that there may be a bug in the old iOS system, which causes some photos to be deleted in the album and lose index information, but the actual image data still occupies the iPhone storage space for a long time. Apple may have fixed this bug in iOS 17.5, when the iPhone upgrade system re-indexed the album, the deleted photos reappeared in the album.
Another possibility is that while trying to fix a photo sync error that occurred in iOS 17.3, Apple inadvertently caused a new sync issue to occur that may involve iCloud backups.
Apple's technical advisory office also responded immediately, and did receive some user feedback related questions, but for the specific reasons, Apple is still conducting further investigations. "If such a problem occurs after the update, and you can delete it again, it means that there is no problem." The technical advisor further stated that there is no need to worry about the privacy of their data. Because even if the photos have been uploaded to iCloud, Apple can't see them. In the next step, Apple will solve the problem through software updates or other pushes.
Vocabulary Analysis:
- iOS: The operating system developed by Apple for iPhone, iPad and other devices.
- iCloud Sync: Apple's cloud service feature that can sync data on your device.
- Bug: A bug or defect in the software.
- Index: A data structure that is used to quickly retrieve data stored in a computer system.
- Storage space: The physical or virtual area inside the device where data is stored.
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