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Here’s why deleted iPhone photos returned to some iOS devices
Apple finally elaborates on the “database corruption” issue.
While Apple released the iOS 17.5.1 iPhone update to fix the issue earlier this week, attributing it to a “database corruption,” the company remained tight-lipped about what was specifically causing old files — including deleted nudes, in some reports — to start appearing on devices that never hosted them. The company said that only a small number of people were impacted by the database issue, and that Apple doesn’t have access to photo or video files on users’ phones. You can find a detailed explanation in their full report here, but in short, iOS 17.5 added a migration routine responsible for scanning and re-importing photos from the filesystem.
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