Apple Explained How Deleted Photos Are Back on iPhones

Some iPhone users experienced interesting things when they updated to the recently released iOS 17.5. In the comments from many people, the deleted your old photos He was seen coming back to the phones. Fortunately, Apple fixed this problem with the iOS 17.5.1 update it rolled out earlier this week.

However, until now we have not seen a statement from the company about the return of old photos. Users were wondering why such a thing happened. Finally, a statement came from the technology giant. The company spoke to 9to5Mac.

A problem with the file system caused the photos to be restored

Apple never accesses deleted photos that you don’t have access While underlining the problem Also related to iCloud He stated that it was not. Instead, affected devices a corrupt database entry in the file system He stated that the photos deleted for some reason came back again.

In other words, some photos deleted due to this disorder they could stay locally and they never left the devices. Company, moved from old devices during backup or device-to-device transfer He says it could happen. This is probably the reason for the emergence of very old photographs.

Apple, very few people and photos He adds that he is affected by the situation. Moreover This does not happen on reset devices. also underlines. The reason for this is a claim on Reddit. In a now-deleted post, the user claimed that old photos appeared on his iPad, which he cleared the data for and sold to a friend. However, Apple stated that this is not possible when reset properly. The fact that the post was deleted showed that the claim was not true.