This is the best summary I could come up with:

Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5, their deleted photos — some quite old — are popping up again, according to a Reddit thread that MacRumors spotted.

People reporting the apparent bug say that they’re seeing old photos appear in their Recents album after Monday’s update.

iOS does give users the option to restore deleted photos, but after 30 days, they’re supposed to be permanently removed.

The person who started the thread claimed that NSFW photos they had deleted “years ago” were back on their phone.

And a person claimed in a later post that “around 300” of their old pictures, some of which were “revealing,” appeared on an iPad they’d wiped per Apple’s guidelines and sold to a friend.

Computer data is never actually “deleted” until it’s overwritten with new 1s and 0s — operating systems simply cut off references to it.

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That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

I find it amazing and amusing just how tech illiterate people can willfully choose to be. If I’m going to be taking questionable photos of any sort the last thing I am going to use is an internet connected device.