Apple has acknowledged that the problem allowing users to view old images that were deleted from an iPhone after installing iOS 17.5 was due to a corrupt entry in the device’s file system database. Several users found that the beta version of the OS was restoring photos to iCloud Photos that had been deleted months or even years ago. One user even mentioned on Reddit that photos from 2010 were still appearing as the most recent files uploaded to iCloud, despite repeated deletion attempts.
To address this issue, Apple released an update, iOS 17.5.1, although they did not specify the exact reason for such occurrences. However, now the company has clarified that the problem was unrelated to iCloud Photos and caused by a corrupt entry in the device’s file system database. The affected photos that were not completely deleted from the users’ iPhones were not synced with iCloud Photos, potentially being transferred between devices through different methods but not through the cloud service.
Apple has provided steps for users to permanently delete unwanted files by accessing the Settings tab, selecting General option and choosing ‘Reset.’ Within this menu, users must click on the ‘Delete all content and settings’ button. Meanwhile, researchers at Synactiv analyzed the code of the iOS 17.5.1 update and found that Apple had removed part of a function responsible for scanning and reimporting photos to the file system, leading to reindexing of old files and their reintegration into users’ image galleries.
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