Re:iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing de...
by jmholla on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @03:39PM
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Except, the computer needs to know where to point to to read the data. So why are they keeping the index/inode around? Unless they're doing some unrequested data recovery to find these files?
Re:iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing de...
by friend_and_foe on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @05:11PM
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Yup, exactly. If it's removed from the index it won't just show up again one day. This tells me that that innocuous explanation is not what's going on here.
Re:iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing de...
by Intralexical on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @07:04PM
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On the Reddit threads, there are also users reporting photos returning after being deleted from a different Apple device of a different type— Even when the original device did not have ICloud enabled.
It's very odd. For it to be a local storage issue, it seems like IOS would have to be copying entire disk images across devices and accidentally doing file carving on freed resources. So I think ICloud is the most plausible technical explanation currently. At the same time, a cloud storage issue implies either malice or incompetence at a level that we currently only have indirect evidence of.
> This could be more innocent than it sounds. Computer data is never actually “deleted” until it’s overwritten with new 1s and 0s — operating systems simply cut off references to it. One user also said they saw a photo return even though they don’t sync their phone or use iCloud, implying the photos could be originating from on-device storage.