this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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It would be deleted if a factory reset actually did its job.
I'm not unconvinced this is a move to get people to throw away there old phones instead of creating a used market.
Factory reset is for the phone. Photo libraries are backed up to the cloud. The issue was the photos weren’t deleted in the cloud.
why would someone not immediately disable cloud backups upon purchasing a device? are they stupid?
Because they want a backup of their data, and cloud backups are convenient?
If they care about maximising storage space over privacy.
They are iPhone users.
Because they want data ownership?