Last week Apple released the latest update to its operating system, iOS 17.5and although this update didn't bring with it many new features, its release was marked by an error of software which makes old photos reappear in the gallery, even though they have already been deleted.
The first reports of this problem emerged on social media, especially on the Redditin which some users were surprised to find old photos, which had been deleted years ago, marked as "recently uploaded" in the iCloud. Another user even shared a similar episode: "I have four photos from 2010 that keep appearing as the last photos uploaded to iCloud. I've deleted them several times". "I had a photo of a concert taken with my Canon camera, which reappeared in my phone's library as if it had been added today" - added another user.
It's not clear why this problem has arisen, but given that some of the photos were apparently taken years ago, it can't be a problem of recently deleted photos not being deleted. In the Appledeleted photos and videos are kept in the "Deleted" album for 30 days, so that users can recover them or remove them permanently from all devices.
Even so, the most recent reports indicate that it may be a bug indexing, corruption of the photo library or a synchronization problem between local devices and the iCloud Photos. Another possibility is that, when trying to correct a bug photo synchronization that took place on iOS 17.3Apple has inadvertently caused a new synchronization problem that may involve backups of iCloud. Some users who ran the iOS 17.5 developer beta 4 have previously reported similar experiences.
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