It is becoming f*cking dangerous: every iOS owner needs to know this Your "deleted" pictures are actually still around Claude Code uncovered years worth of them resting inside a concealed cache on my iPhone I plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to create a backup, having Claude Code run a routine security sweep simultaneously. It flagged an unexpected directory named PhotoData/Thumbnails Countless files. Images, clips, and screen grabs. A significant portion consisted of items I had previously erased Pictures from several years ago. Screen captures I snapped and discarded mere seconds later. Stuff I deliberately cleared out from the Recently Deleted album. Fragments of it were still lingering there Here is what turned up within that cache:  old snapshots of financial applications  photos I got rid of immediately after capturing them  random images I no longer wanted on my device  a handful of files I specifically recall deleting on multiple occasions  When an image is removed on an iPhone, iOS strips it from your main gallery and the Recently Deleted folder. However, it preserves a compressed duplicate inside the Spotlight search cache so the system can still index items for queries. That specific storage area never gets fully purged I reviewed which software programs held permissions to access files and folders. There were far more than anticipated, encompassing utilities I downloaded ages ago and completely overlooked. Any of them could potentially read data out of that cache I went down the roster and revoked permission for the vast majority of them The exact prompt I deployed is provided below. It takes very little time if a backup is already on hand How many apps on your device currently possess File access privileges?