Beware of iOS 17.5: Deleted Photos May Reappear in Your Gallery

The recent iOS 17.5 update has caused a huge stir in the Photos app. Several users have already reported a bug in the new system due to which Photos deleted in the past reappear. The error is so severe that some people are seeing the number of images increase to 300 in their device’s gallery.

Others confirm that Photos deleted in 2010 are back, so the Deleted Items album, which keeps deleted photos for 30 days, doesn’t seem to be the culprit. That is, deleted items that appear again are not recent, but may, as in the case of this user, more than 14 years.

In fact, the whole commotion started after a notification from a user who saw how intimate photos of his partner returned to his gallery. He claims that these are pictures taken during the pandemic, when they lived separately, and that they were completely deleted from their devices. They’re now back in the Photos app and even appear on your iPad.

That’s why, if you have updated your iPhone to iOS 17.5 We recommend stopping by the gallery and taking a look to make sure everything remains the same. An easy way to check this compare the approximate number of photos which you had in the Photos app compared to the current one, although this depends on whether you remember this figure.

And in case you were wondering, there is no pattern. Some users report nothing, while others report an increase in the number of deleted photos by 300 or 400. No dates, since there seems to be no iOS 17.5 recovery of random images over a period of several months to more than 10 years.

Where do deleted photos from iPhone go? iOS 17.5 puts Apple in control

Now, after this chaos, many people They’re starting to wonder how Apple manages photos deleted from iPhones.. How can an image that was completely removed in 2020 reappear in 2024? Where did you be all this time? Does the company keep a copy even if users decide to get rid of it?

In the official system, when a user deletes a photo It disappears from the gallery and is placed in the “Deleted” album for 30 days.. This is a period of time to restore it, which works similar to the Windows or MacOS Recycle Bin.

After time has passed, He disappears from this space and it is impossible to see him again., which means the complete removal of the iPhone and the company’s servers. And no, this system has not changed since iOS 17.5.

Therefore, the situation seems dangerous to Apple not because the photo is returned to the gallery, but because store a copy of it for many years without the user’s knowledge. We’ll have to wait to find out what happens with this iOS 17.5 bug because for now The company remains completely silent.