After iOS 17.5 was launched on Monday, customers began noticing that photos that they had deleted had been surfacing once more. The bug even impacted individuals who weren’t iCloud customers, indicating that they had been being restored from onboard storage. Most of the pictures had been years previous and extremely delicate.
What makes the bug really scary is that it can provide individuals to whom you offered your iPhone or iPad entry to your pictures even when you adopted Apple’s directions for promoting a tool, which embrace signing out of iCloud and erasing your machine.
That is what occurred with Reddit user AnimatorAmazing190. They stated they cleared their iPad earlier than promoting it and have not used Apple ID on that iPad since then. Fortunately, their iPad was offered to a buddy and never a stranger, they usually knowledgeable AnimatorAmazing190 that after updating to iPad OS 17.5, they had been in a position to view their previous photos within the Pictures app. The mannequin they had been utilizing was a 4th technology 12.9-inch iPad Professional.
I wiped the iPad utilizing official Apple guides earlier than promoting. I by no means logged into that iPad with my Apple ID after erasing the iPad. I offered my iPad to a buddy in September 2023, they referred to as me as we speak after updating to iPad OS 17.5 and stated my previous photos appeared of their Pictures app… HUGE PRIVACY VIOLATION. I see different stories of this. How many individuals will get different individuals’s pictures on the units they purchased from different individuals?
UPD: please cease saying I logged again into the iPad after erasing it. I didn’t, I wiped it clear like proven on this information from Apple (https://assist.apple.com/en-ca/109511), then handed the iPad to my buddy. By no means logged in after wiping it as it might defeat the aim of wiping it altogether.
It is a nightmare that each one that sells their previous machine dreads and is a privateness violation of the worst kind.
It is one factor to have your previous pictures resurface by yourself machine, however it’s a wholly completely different matter if a stranger will get entry to your pictures.
When pictures and movies are deleted on an iPhone or iPad, they’re moved to the Not too long ago Deleted album for 30 days, earlier than being completely deleted.
Apple has not stated something in regards to the bug thus far however let’s hope it is taken care of earlier than anybody’s pictures fall into the mistaken fingers
