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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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1133 points pattyj | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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MarkMarine ◴[17 Sep 25 14:35 UTC] No.45276344[source]▶
I’ve been seeing this happen on older photos that had imported properly, and I just use my iPhone and view photos on my Mac and iPhone. Looking back, I’ve lost whole chunks of my photo library. It’s a bigger problem than I realized. I don’t have these backed up elsewhere.
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1. kccqzy ◴[17 Sep 25 14:38 UTC] No.45276389[source]▶
I used to see this when I had iCloud Photo Library turned on. It randomly corrupted old photos that were correct. It corrupted both photos taken on the iPhone and photos imported from a real camera.

I have since turned off iCloud Photo Library, downgraded iCloud (no longer needed so much storage), and started using fully open source photo management with flat files on disk.