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I spent a while with higher level Apple support talking to developers over a weeks time. What happened was photos in message threads that had been deleted, and

by sosuke 11y ago

I spent a while with higher level Apple support talking to developers over a weeks time. What happened was photos in message threads that had been deleted, and photos that had been deleted, reappeared during the iOS8 update. Supposedly it was a bug in iOS6 that was fixed by iOS7 so that was the explanation of why these zombie photos appeared again when iOS8 had the view message history photos feature. That is the best I can remember at least it was a good while back now.

eridius 11y ago
Curious bug. I'm still confused as to what this has to do with iCloud Photo Library though (or even with the Photos app). The bug as described isn't related to iCloud at all, since your iMessages are stored in a local database and aren't persisted on Apple's servers (it sounds like the bug was the message thread was deleted from the local database, but not the message attachments, so the new View Photos feature was able to find those orphaned photos).