sonicfan

Q: Photos disappearing after random reboots on iOS 9.3.2

So I have an iPod touch 5 with iOS 9.3.2, and recently I bought 50gb of iCloud storage and started uploading all my photos and videos (over 30,000, I know, I should stop saving so many) so I wouldn't lose them, because my computer cannot currently backup or update my iPod due to a driver issue, and then it started rebooting randomly and crashes became more frequent along with very poor performance even for an old device (basically it slowed to a crawl and became downright unresponsive), and I noticed that my photos/videos had all just up and vanished, but they weren't necessarily gone, I just couldn't access them, because they were still taking up space in settings. They eventually restore, but not usually all the way, because it keeps rebooting and it starts all over, and it's getting extremely frustrating. I even tried updating to the latest iOS and it froze and rebooted while it was preparing, I did it from my iPod, not iTunes by the way. Now, I have since turned off iCloud Photo Library in settings and it has improved but it will still occasionally restart and my photos will go back to zero again, and even as I type this they're coming back slowly (I lied, the app crashed and they're back to zero again) and I'm just wondering, if my settings say that the space is still being taken up, even though they're not counted in the photo count, could I update while they restore, or would that cause them to be permanently deleted?

iPod touch (5th generation), iOS 9.3.2, null

Posted on Aug 29, 2016 6:15 PM