Apple Storing Deleted iMessages?

🔗 https://www.macobserver.com/news/ios-26-is-haunting-iphones-with-old-messages-and-photos/

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u/DataDrifter_01 • 29 days ago

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Classic Apple. 'Privacy is a human right' until they conveniently forget to *actually* delete your stuff from their servers. Or maybe it's just 'data retention for future AI training' disguised as a bug.

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u/NightOwlDev • 29 days ago

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Nah, this isn't about their servers directly. It's usually a sync issue with iCloud backups, or messages re-downloading from an old device backup. Or sometimes just an indexing bug locally. Not necessarily 'Apple storing everything forever' intentionally.

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u/PixelPusher_7 • 28 days ago

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Still sketchy though.

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u/SilverStreamer • 28 days ago

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OMG, this happened to me! Had an old pic pop up from like 2017 that I swear I deleted years ago. Freaked me out. Thought my phone was haunted.

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u/code_monkey_x • 28 days ago

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Your phone IS haunted. By your past self's bad choices in photos. 👻

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