iPhone owners are reporting that photos they’d deleted are now back on their phones, after updating to iOS 17.5.
With so many users reporting similar oddities, it would seem something went wrong, or at least different than to be expected. When you delete a photo from an iPhone or iPad, it goes into a “Recently deleted” album for up to 30 days to make it easy to recover if the photo is accidentally deleted. However, the above examples vastly exceed this timeframe, and it’s unclear exactly what’s happened here.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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