[anizan]

Allegedly “deleted” not allegedly resurfacing. Thank god for our security apparatus overlords for mantaining permanent backups for posterity sake.

So much for Apple’s We take privacy seriously tag line

[nomel]

I'm not sure it's fair to make such damning assumptions based on alleged behavior.

A boring explanation is that they have some other cloud service installed. I have loads of duplicates from Google Photos [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlephotos/comments/12soy0s/why_d...

[anizan]

Both pictures on local storage and Icloud are reappearing as per comments [1].

https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1csms00/ios_175_bug_re...

[yellow_postit]

The privacy line is marketing. Only used if advantageous to Apple. See for example how they don’t use it in all markets.