It’s not in the article. Unless you’re referring to their speculation:
Then there’s the bizarro version of delete where you’re quite convinced you’ve gone through every single device and deleted your photos permanently, and then a restore from an old iCloud backup or a pernicious little iOS bug resurfaces those photos. Surprise! That appears to be what triggered this latest incident.
Which is not what this bug was about at all.
Yeah it’s bad news reporting from Wired, but people seem to gobble it up as facts.
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 data ownership?
They are iPhone users.
If they care about maximising storage space over privacy.
Because they want a backup of their data, and cloud backups are convenient?
Do you have a source for that?
The article
It’s not in the article. Unless you’re referring to their speculation:
Which is not what this bug was about at all.
Yeah it’s bad news reporting from Wired, but people seem to gobble it up as facts.