Recently, some netizens have reported that Apple's latest iOS 17.5 update seems to have a serious problem, and many users have strangely reappeared in the Photos app after upgrading to the new system.
These users said that after updating to iOS 17.5, they discovered that the latest photos in the Photos app were private content that had been permanently deleted years ago. One user described with trepidation: "I was chatting with my partner and wanted to post a photo, only to find out that the latest photo turned out to be an intimate photo taken during our long-distance relationship a few years ago, which was permanently deleted years ago, and now it has come back inexplicably!" I checked the iPad and got the same issue (some artwork I created years ago). This made me feel very uneasy. ”
Another user wrote: "I've had the same thing. I've deleted four photos from 2010 multiple times, but they keep reappearing in iCloud's list of recently uploaded photos. ”
For a while, the topic word #Expose iOS17.5 to recover photos that have been deleted for many years# rushed to the hot search list, and netizens talked about it.
The reporter found that there were also users on multiple social platforms who encountered similar problems, some people updated the system and there were many strange pictures in the album, and some people found that the photos were out of order......
The appearance of this bug, netizens blew up: scared to death! There's no privacy at all, isn't it......
A grazing cat y: This is a little scary, isn't it? So we don't have any privacy at all, right...... There are so many photos that I don't know which ones I deleted, so I'll flip through them for a while.
Wang peanut gives birth to a child_:omg! It's going to scare me to death!
csahi said: One look at the album, two eyes dark...... It's true! Previously deleted photos have indeed been restored.
4.7 Drink a glass of warm water: The photos I deleted must be unwanted, and it is really scary to be able to recover the photos that have been deleted for many years.
At the same time, many users have doubts about Apple's privacy protection measures.
Yanwei pineapple bag my: It means that your device has been deleted, but it is still stored in the Apple cloud, and it is very scary to think about it, so don't change 17.5 first.
Rambo King: It is not safe. People still have all kinds of data about you in the background, even if you delete it yourself, but it doesn't.
Koi Liubao: It's all the same, there is data recovery software, no matter what electronic device is not safe.
Normally, the "Recently Deleted" feature of the iPhone Photos app will keep the deleted photos for 30 days to make it easier for users to recover the deleted content by mistake.
In 2022, an Apple user posted that he accidentally deleted the photo, contacted customer service to provide the ID, and in a few minutes, hundreds of photos were recovered.
Some tech experts speculate that this may have something to do with iOS 17.5's changes to the Photos app. During the update process, the photo library may have been reindexed, resulting in some deleted photos being incorrectly recovered.
According to media reports, Apple's China customer service responded that it has not received any feedback in this regard, but it can guarantee that any personal privacy data of users will not be stored in the background in any form.
Apple's latest response: still investigating
In this regard, on May 16, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from the technical consultant of Apple's customer service that it did receive some related problems from user feedback, but for the specific reasons, Apple is still conducting further investigations.
The technical consultant said that if such problems occur after the update, you can try to delete the recovered photos again, and if you can delete them normally, it means that the system is not a big problem. The tech consultant also said that users don't have to worry about the privacy of their data, because even if the photos have been uploaded to iCloud, Apple will not be able to see them. In the next step, the relevant issues will be resolved through software updates or other pushes.
Have you updated to iOS 17.5? Are there any such problems?