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    SennaSempre
    AskWoody Lounger
    June 29, 2024 at 1:38 pm #2684184

    I hate it when something just changes on your phone or computer and you didn’t make the change. I don’t know why this happens, if anyone can say so I would love to know?

    This happened on my iOS camera settings where all of a sudden my images have been kicked down in resolution sizes to 960×1280 and I always leave it on the maximum 3024×4032 and this is confirmed under settings.

    Also every pic I take is now being duplicated into a even square 1×1 ratio with an extra file .AAE in my Camera Roll. I import all files manually through Image Capture and then have to go through and delete half of my double sized Camera Roll.

    Why did this automatic setting occur and how can I change it back and stop it from ever happening again? Ghost in the Machine is a great album but hate it when it happens to you. thank you.

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    • Alex5723
      AskWoody Plus
      June 29, 2024 at 1:58 pm #2684186

      Which iOS version ? Any recent updates ?

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      • SennaSempre
        AskWoody Lounger
        June 30, 2024 at 12:16 am #2684249

        iOS 17.2.1 and I try to never update unless absolutely forced to for reasons just like this. Every time I ever updated nothing ever worked afterwards so that mantra is over forever. But this happened all on its own, the phone just decided on itself 🙁

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    • Alex5723
      AskWoody Plus
      June 30, 2024 at 1:10 am #2684255
      SennaSempre wrote:

      Every time I ever updated nothing ever worked afterwards

      I run beta (previously dev) versions for years (iPhone, iPad, watch) and never had a problem of settings changes unless they are part of new features…
      Currently on 17.6 beta.

      You are way behind with your security updates.
      Update to 17.5.

      iOS (or any OS) doesn’t change settings on its own without some user intervention.

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    • SennaSempre
      AskWoody Lounger
      June 30, 2024 at 4:08 pm #2684340

      ok but I don’t want to run any updates, security or otherwise. I’m just trying to understand and prevent why my camera roll has a mind of its own and started these settings changes when I didn’t enact them. Do you or anyone here on this forum know what I can do to fix this?

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    • Deo
      AskWoody Plus
      June 30, 2024 at 6:03 pm #2684362

      The issue with photos (deleted and coming back) is covered in the Ask Woody forum topic  “Apple explains IOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos” started by Alex5723, and discussed there, with links to articles from the web for reference. It is also mentioned in Alex’s ongoing vigilant topic  “Ios/Ipad OS and Watch OS Updates” (see posts there May 20, 2024). You can find both above in scrolling down the same Forum path you started your post from:) PS I think Susan covered it in one of her Newsletters or topics too?

      As that bug affected many prior ios releases, sounds like that may be what is happening to you.

      Apple released a fix for that with ios 17.5.1. I recommend you make icloud backup & update to ios 17.5.1 as soon as possible to stop your issue from further photo duplication/oddities. (Note: once updated, you will have to manually go through and delete duplicates). I went from ios 17.2.1 to 17.5.1 on my ipad with no issue (I used Apple itunes on my PC to both backup & then update, as it’s a hefty jump. There were very little garbage ‘new features’, if any. All my stgs retained).

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    • SennaSempre
      AskWoody Lounger
      July 1, 2024 at 1:15 am #2684404

      …okay how do I find these strings so I can read them? I see no Search box here on this site. or can you post the links here in this thread to click on them? One thing I should point out in that 1st title – “IOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos” that part is not what’s happening to me.

      The duplication of images and the .AAE file creation is happening when I manually upload my images into my iMac. In the camera roll on the iPhone it will say 100 images as an example and then when I do the upload with the Image Capture app it says 300 images total which is 100 duplicate images and another 100 .AAE files, and then is when I start my deletion process. But nothing “resurfaces” after I finish the deletion.

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