According to Apple, the photos that did not fully delete from a user’s device were not synced to iCloud Photos. Those files were only on the device itself. However, the files could have persisted from one device to another when restoring from a backup, performing a device-to-device transfer, or when restoring from an iCloud Backup but not using iCloud Photos.
In a now-deleted post, a Reddit user last week alleged that their photos reappeared on an iPad they sold to a friend, despite them having erased the content of that iPad prior to selling it. Apple confirmed to me that this claim was false.
Apple removed a routine in the function responsible for scanning and re-importing photos from the filesystem, which caused it to reindex old files on the local file system and add them back to people’s galleries.
“Based on this code, we can say that the photos that reappeared were still lying around on the filesystems and that they were just found by the migration routine added in iOS 17.5,” explained Synactiv.
Apple has announced that "Tap to Pay on iPhone" is available in Canada starting today through select payment platforms in the country.
Popular photo editing app Pixelmator Pro was today updated with an overhauled set of AI-powered masking tools that make it easier than ever to make selective edits. Masking was "reengineered from the ground up" in the new 3.6 version of Pixelmator Pro, so it's quicker to create and refine masks.
The HandBrake Team has issued version 1.8 of its open-source video conversion program HandBrake with macOS-specific improvements.
I am satisfied by Apple's elaborations on 9to5Mac. But, wouldn't it better if Apple also write something on their own web site?
On the other hand, is Apple changing the library files of the Photos app? Is it preparing for something big (cough ai cough) coming this fall?
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