iOS 17.5.1 was just lately launched by Apple for eligible iPhone fashions alongside iPadOS 17.5.1, and the software program replace brings a repair for a bug associated to the Images app that induced beforehand deleted pictures to reappear for some customers. The latest replace additionally brings different unspecified bug fixes for Apple’s smartphone and pill working system. It has arrived days after Apple launched the iOS 17.5 replace together with cross platform monitoring detection, an offline mode for Apple Information+ and a number of safety and bug fixes.
Apple’s temporary iOS 17.5.1 launch notes state that the replace fixes a “uncommon difficulty” that induced pictures to reappear within the Images library after they have been deleted. In keeping with the corporate, these pictures have been affected by a database corruption difficulty that induced them to be proven within the Images app even after they have been deleted. The corporate additionally says that different bug fixes have made it to the replace, however did not present particular particulars.
The bug, highlighted in a thread by Reddit customers over every week in the past (by way of MacRumours) affected iPhone fashions operating on iOS 17.5, and a few customers had alleged that pictures deleted years in the past began to indicate up of their Images library. On iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, any pictures deleted from the Images app is moved to a Just lately Deleted folder, after which they’re presupposed to be deleted. Nevertheless, the bug apparently prevented some pictures from being deleted, and it appears like Apple has lastly resolved this difficulty.
Not like the iOS 17.5 replace that rolled out earlier this month with new wallpapers and options, the most recent model does not embody fixes for any notable safety flaws, in accordance with Apple’s official help web page. That is in distinction to the iOS 17.5 replace that contained fixes for not less than 15 safety flaws affecting numerous elements of the working system.
Like earlier iOS 17 updates, customers with an iPhone 15 and older fashions as much as the iPhone XR ought to obtain and set up the iOS 17.5.1 replace to be able to resolve the problem that impacts deleted pictures on the corporate’s smartphones.
To put in iOS 17.5.1, customers can open the Settings app and choose Basic > Software program Replace > Set up Now. After getting into the passcode, the system will obtain the most recent model of the working and system and immediate the person to put in the replace, however the set up will also be postponed. Doing so will schedule the replace to be put in in a single day.
