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Q: Photos I did not take appear in my camera roll

This has happened twice to me this week. The first incident was last Thursday, I was looking through my camera roll (not photostream) and saw three pictures that I did not take. They were photos saved from the internet, as one of them was a 9gag meme. I was at the office that time so I guessed one of my officemates fooled around with my phone maybe. I didn't think anything of it. Then this morning, I woke up and found two more pictures on my camera roll that I didn't take. One photo was a picture of a windows desktop, which is weird because there aren't any windows computers in my household. Plus, I did not go out last night or anything, so my phone was with me the whole time. This is starting to worry me because this may be a security issue. Can a someone hack into my phone remotely and save photos into my camera roll? It's either that or I have a trigger happy alter-ego...

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Sep 8, 2012 8:06 PM

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Q: Photos I did not take appear in my camera roll

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  • by ckuan,

    ckuan ckuan Sep 8, 2012 8:15 PM in response to RenPiano86
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    Sep 8, 2012 8:15 PM in response to RenPiano86

    Don't be paranoid , unless your iPhone was hacked or jailbroken you have nothing to worry about.

    Note: Pics from the Internet, e-mail attachment, or mms are saved in your Camera Roll.

  • by RenPiano86,

    RenPiano86 RenPiano86 Sep 9, 2012 6:35 AM in response to ckuan
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    Sep 9, 2012 6:35 AM in response to ckuan

    Yep, I'm aware that pics are saved into the camera roll from the internet etc. It's just that the photos that "appeared" are so random, definitely not photos I'd want to save for future reference or whatever. But maybe you're right, I could be paranoid.

  • by wulfshade,

    wulfshade wulfshade Oct 17, 2012 8:40 PM in response to RenPiano86
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    Oct 17, 2012 8:40 PM in response to RenPiano86

    You're not paranoid, I just noticed this is happening to me too. No chance someone has taken the phone or is playing a gag. There are several weird random images in my camera roll that I didn't shoot or download from anywhere--a shot of Navy people posing together, screen shots from a Canada government website, "funny" graphics like people would post on their facebook wall, gross wrinkly old lady that looks like the crypt keeper, bearded woman with pom poms on her hat. This is no joke. What's up with this??

  • by RenPiano86,

    RenPiano86 RenPiano86 Oct 17, 2012 8:56 PM in response to wulfshade
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    Oct 17, 2012 8:56 PM in response to wulfshade

    FINALLY somebody having the same problem as mine. Thank you for sharing that, made me feel so much saner! It recently happened to me again, but I noticed that the photos came from a group chat on the WhatsApp app i have. Apparently when I open the conversation, some of the photos get saved to my camera roll. But still, not all the random photos came from WhatsApp. There are still some photos that just "magically" appear.

     

    I really hope some explanation can be made. I'm sure we're not the only two with this problem.

  • by wulfshade,

    wulfshade wulfshade Oct 18, 2012 4:14 AM in response to RenPiano86
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    Oct 18, 2012 4:14 AM in response to RenPiano86

    Hmmm

    m. I use whatsapp too. Maybe I need to check groups to see if that's the source. I thought the pics only transferred to camera roll if viewed? If the bearded lady with Pom poms steal my identity, do I have to assume his/hers ?

  • by Peter Jorgensen,

    Peter Jorgensen Peter Jorgensen Sep 23, 2016 6:39 AM in response to RenPiano86
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    Sep 23, 2016 6:39 AM in response to RenPiano86

    I see that this thread is quite old but Aan unrecognized photo appeared in my wife's camera roll in the midst of a bunch of photos she took. it is of a man and woman on a couch with the woman's head on his lap. They are fully clothed. The XMP file related to this photo contains:

    <?xpacket begin='' id=''?>

    <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/' x:xmptk='XMP toolkit 2.9-9, framework 1.6'>

    <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#' xmlns:iX='http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/'>

    <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:Iptc4xmpCore='http://iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/xmlns/'>

    </rdf:Description>

    <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:photoshop='http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/'>

    </rdf:Description>

    <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>

    </rdf:Description>

    <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:photomechanic='http://ns.camerabits.com/photomechanic/1.0/'>

    </rdf:Description>

    </rdf:RDF>

    </x:xmpmeta>

    <?xpacket end='w'?>