Apple talked about the error that brought back old photos and gave some details. The company blames iCloud for the problem not included.
For the iOS 17.5.1 update, which was released recently and solved the error mentioned above, Apple briefly stated the following: “This update provides important bug fixes and ensures that photos that experience database corruption will still be deleted. Fixes a rare issue that caused them to reappear in the Photos library.” So what exactly was this incident? Because of that error that occurred with iOS 17.5 Some photos deleted years ago started to come back directly to the devices. It was stated that within the scope of this problem, there are photos/images that go back even from 2021 and are suddenly seen at the end of the photo gallery. Then the situation became even more alarming because a userHe said that the old photos on his iPad, which he reset and sold after the iOS 17.5 update, came back. First of all, Apple said that this latest incident is not entirely true, He said that most likely that person sold his iPad without completely resetting it. For the general problem, as claimed It has been reported that there is no problem centered on iCloud Photos. The company stated that the problem occurred in built-in devices and affected a very small number of people. It was said that there was a database corruption. The technology giant also said that they did not have access to the deleted photos, and that the photos came back directly from the device’s own memory. Apple is concerned about some of the photos returned being too old.“Corrupt data may have migrated from one device to another while restoring a local backup, performing a device-to-device transfer, or loading an iCloud backup.” said.