Apple Releases Fix for Deleted Photos Reappearing: 17.5.1 Out Now

Gary Ng
2 years ago

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Apple has released iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1, which fixes a bug that was affecting some users where their deleted photos would reappear.

The software update is available for iPhone and is just over 300 MB in size. Apple says it brings important bug fixes and “addresses a rare issue” where pictures that saw database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted. For your nudes to come back from the dead? That’s a bad Apple!

You can update your iPhone by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

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Guy
Guy
1 year ago

So is this proof that deleted photos are never deleted from apple for years ?

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escargot
escargot
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1 year ago

In all cases they were deleted from the photos app but restored because the user (sometimes without knowing) had copied a 2nd copy of the photo to the files app

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aafa wfawfawf
aafa wfawfawf
1 year ago

A “rare bug” that brought back hundreds of deleted photos from as long as eight years ago… Can Apple actually get away without explaining what happened here? There really need to be some legal repercussions for this

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escargot
escargot
Reply to  aafa wfawfawf
1 year ago

In all cases where photos reappeared, a copy of the photos was saved or downloaded to the Files app. So the original photo was deleted from the photos app. The restored photos came from the files app and were restored due to database corruption.

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Guy
Guy
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1 year ago

Regardless deleted is deleted and bug or not they should not re-appear since they are not suppose to be in existence.
Deleted: destroy eliminate erase expunge remove wipe out

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aafa wfawfawf
aafa wfawfawf
Reply to  Guy
1 year ago

I think what he is saying is that there were two copies of the photos – one of them was deleted from the Photos app and the other copy was in the Files app. The bug didn’t “bring back” the deleted copy from the Photos but somehow created a new copy of the photo in the Files app in the Photos app.

@SpaceAgent433:disqus where did you get this information from? I’ve seen comments on 9to5Mac, The Verge and, of course, that Reddit thread tand there’ve been plenty of people saying “Yeah, happened to me too”. Can you really say ALL of them had copies of the photos in the Files app? Personally, I don’t copy my photos to Files app practically never – they are always in Photos because that’s the most convenient.

Most importantly, Apple never explained what happened, let alone mentioned Files app by name. One would think the company would jump at the opportunity to make it clear that they do not, in fact, store copies of customers’ photos on their servers (as some theories suggested).

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