Is it true that permanently deleted photos and videos are back on the new update of iPhone ?

Please I would like to know if it’s true that permanently deleted photos and videos are back on the new update of IPhone. Please how true is this? Does it mean nothing is truly deleted on one’s iPhone?


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Posted on Jul 10, 2024 11:09 AM

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Posted on Jul 10, 2024 11:21 AM

If you delete something off the iPhone permanently, it is gone for good. The iPhone uses Flash memory for storage, similar to the SSD storage that must erase the data after a file is deleted before it can be used again. This is known as the TRIM process and happens shortly after the file is removed so it is always ready to store more data. This is much different than the way that older HDD drives worked in the past where that data location was simply allocated for reuse and the data remained in that location until it was overwritten.

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Jul 10, 2024 11:21 AM in response to Yarbaba2

If you delete something off the iPhone permanently, it is gone for good. The iPhone uses Flash memory for storage, similar to the SSD storage that must erase the data after a file is deleted before it can be used again. This is known as the TRIM process and happens shortly after the file is removed so it is always ready to store more data. This is much different than the way that older HDD drives worked in the past where that data location was simply allocated for reuse and the data remained in that location until it was overwritten.

Jul 10, 2024 12:31 PM in response to Yarbaba2

Yarbaba2 wrote:

Okay then. The thing is I saw it on Reddit and most people were just talking about how the photos and videos they deleted years ago, it’s now on recently deleted album

Kudos to you for actually following up on the claims made instead of just repeating false information like is normally the case on these Social Media sites. They are not known to be a source of factual information and the claims made by anonymous users simply go unchecked..

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