Apple Accused of Secretly Storing Deleted User Notes After 30-Day Grace Period

Apple might be storing deleted user notes in iCloud even after the 30-day grace period, according to Russian software firm ElcomSoft who managed to retrieve notes that were 2 years old.

The Cupertino-based iPhone maker automatically places deleted user notes in iCloud in a dedicated folder called “Recently Deleted,” which they are being kept for 30 days before allegedly getting deleted for ever.

Apple is thus giving its users the possibility of restoring a specific note should they change their mind in the 30-day grace period, but it looks like the company is sometimes holding these notes even longer without users actually seeing them in their iCloud accounts.

ElcomSoft says it managed to extract notes from iCloud accounts using its own Phone Breaker application, and it discovered that some of them were older than 30 days and weren’t supposed to be… (read more)

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