Exposes the “myth” of deleted I think is a bit much. They described it very well a good ways down:
One framework for thinking about the deletion of photos in the year 2024 is that it really has different levels. In Google’s documentation for its cloud services, for example, the company details its stages of deletion—the soft deletion, the logical deletion, the eventual expiration. The company says that in all cloud products, copies of deleted data are marked as available storage and overwritten over time. Not dissimilar to the dinosaur disk drive, “delete” equals “let’s just make this space available until something else comes along.”
If your phone deletes a photo, say as a background process (after being in the trash for 30 days) and a bug prevents that space from eventually getting reclaimed, that data would persist even though it’s “inaccessible”. Fixing something else, may have made that data accessible again causing the issue people were seeing. Good to see they got it resolved though
Exposes the “myth” of deleted I think is a bit much. They described it very well a good ways down:
If your phone deletes a photo, say as a background process (after being in the trash for 30 days) and a bug prevents that space from eventually getting reclaimed, that data would persist even though it’s “inaccessible”. Fixing something else, may have made that data accessible again causing the issue people were seeing. Good to see they got it resolved though
Ouch
Always SDelete in Windows and scrub in Linux