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Reports of deleted data coming back, after scrubbing/reset and phone sold to others.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The restored photos weren't in iCloud

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/inside-the-ios-bug-that-made-deleted-photos-reappear

As for the photos reappearing after a factory reset of the device, there is no confirmed case by Apple about this ever happening, so I wouldn't take this claim seriously.

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