It’s probably nothing sinister, though.
    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      6 months ago

      probably they just implemented a trash can system in an extremely idiotic way like Samsung.

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    Putting my developer hat on and reading various reports - this smells like Apple had a really bad data loss bug which they quietly fixed by attempting to automatically recover lost photos from some corner of the database that still might have the data. Such as the thumbnail database or a cache.

    Backups people. Make sure you have good backups and for your most precious photos not just digital ones - print them. And send a physical copy to your grandparents as a gift - they’ll love it and it will be one more place you can recover that photo of your kid’s birthday if you ever need to

    And if you don’t want something in a photo… don’t take the photo.

    • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Backing this stuff up is really difficult. The vast majority of macs don’t have enough storage to keep everything local. If you put it on an external drive then it disables some features.

      My solution is to keep an old Mac as a backup device that keeps all the files local and backs them up. But that’s far more than most people are prepared to do.

  • mister_monster@monero.townEnglish
    410·
    6 months ago

    Probably nothing sinister lol they’re archiving everything every iPhone user has ever had on their device even if they don’t sync and some bug accidentally pulled back the curtain for a minute.