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Claude Code finds 145,000 deleted photos still sitting in an iPhone's hidden cache

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A user on the Hacker News front page reported using Claude Code to find 145,000 photos in an iPhone's hidden cache. The photos had already been deleted by the user but were still present in the device's cache. The report says this shows deleted photos may linger in device cache rather than being truly erased. The disclosed progress is only that the user located the cached photos with Claude Code.

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Oct 29
  1. Hacker News front page
    Claude Code found 145K photos I deleted from my iPhone sitting in a hidden cache

    用户用 Claude Code 在 iPhone 的隐藏缓存中找到了自己已删除的 14.5 万张照片。该发现说明被删除的照片可能仍残留在设备缓存里,而非真正清除。

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