Claude Code finds 145K "deleted" iPhone photos still sitting in a hidden cache
CGMthrowaway · hn · 2026-10-29
- A user shared on HN that Claude Code uncovered 145K photos they had deleted from their iPhone, still stored in a hidden system cache directory.
- The finding raises questions about what "deleting" on iOS actually means and privacy implications of cached remnants — AI coding agents' file traversal made the hidden data visible.
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