Apple explains the cause of the bug that made deleted photos reappear

We already know why photos they had deleted reappeared for some users

iOS 17.5.1 was released a few days ago to fix a bug that caused photos deleted in the past to reappear in users’ camera rolls, something that sparked a lot of concern and questions. We did not have information about it beyond the update notes. Fortunately, Apple has provided more details on this.

In the notes of the update itself, the company with the bitten apple made reference to a corrupt database, but without giving more details. A week after the bug appeared, the company has provided some more details about the causes of this problem.

iCloud has had nothing to do with it

In some cases, the photos that appeared dated back to 2010, which made it appear that those photos had not actually been deleted and that they remained somewhere. Apple says that The deleted photos that have reappeared were the fault of a corrupt entry in the database that existed in the device’s own file system.

According to Apple, Photos that were not completely deleted from a user’s device were not synced to iCloud. Those files were only on the device itself. However, files could have persisted from one device to another when restoring from a backup, performing a device-to-device transfer, or restoring from iCloud backup, but not when using iCloud Photos.

There has also been a rumor that there were photos appearing on devices sold to other people, but that it isn’t true. It was a Reddit post that went viral in the midst of the hustle and bustle due to the bug that did exist, but was finally deleted from the social network by the author himself, which suggests that he only wanted to take advantage of the situation to gain visibility.

Apple has emphasized that this has been a strange problem that has affected many users, but that does not save or have access to users’ photos and videos. With iOS 17.5.1 Photos that reappeared when it was released have been removed again iOS 17.5so the bug has been fixed.

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