Some iCloud customers are reporting critical points, together with corrupted movies that now include nonetheless photos taken by unknown individuals.
Posting within the MacRumors discussion board, one person reveals how movies recorded on an iPhone 14 Professional Max lead to “black movies with scan traces” and, extra worryingly, “inserting stills into movies from unknown sources, presumably others’ iCloud accounts.” These stills reportedly image “different individuals’s households, soccer video games and different random photographs.”
Some iCloud customers are reporting critical points, together with corrupted movies that now include nonetheless … [+]
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The issue appears to happen solely when HDR and HEVC recording is enabled and when utilizing the newest model of iCloud for Home windows downloaded from the Microsoft retailer.
Since posting, others have reported the identical concern which seems additionally to happen on movies shot with an iPhone 13 Professional. Moreover, the unique poster claims to have reported the difficulty to “the Apple safety group” solely to be advised that it’s not a safety concern.
If the intrusive photos are coming from different iCloud customers, this most actually is a really critical safety concern. At this level, nobody is aware of the place the pictures are coming from. With out realizing the supply, there’s no concrete proof that anybody’s safety has been breached. Nevertheless, one person at the moment experiencing the bug has described these surprising photographs as “clearly another person’s private photos”, which is probably worrying for anybody who has private content material saved of their iCloud library.
Fortunately, the issue doesn’t look like widespread as solely a handful of customers have reported the difficulty. The unique poster has additionally reported that the bug is not occurring. Nevertheless, this affords no reassurance for anybody whose private photographs might have already been shared by accident, whether or not or not they originated from iCloud.
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