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Clicking "delete" on your iPhone doesn't mean your photo is completely gone. But there are ways you can ensure those racy photos are completely erased.
It is nearly impossible to be sure if your deleted iPhone photos are completely gone. Fortunately, there are certain precautions you can now take to protect your embarrassing photos from being seen.
According to security experts, merely clicking "delete" does not always erase a photo completely or immediately. Rather, deleting simply tells your iPhone or Apple's cloud (iCloud) servers to hide that file until it eventually gets overwritten by other data.
Afterwards, you can no longer see the deleted photos still on your iPhone. "But if I was able to scan the phone, I may still be able to find that data," says Zulfikar Ramzan, chief technical officer for cloud security startup Elastica.
It's also difficult to determine precisely when a photo is wiped from iCloud. Not knowing exactly how Apple treats its servers is part of the challenge, explained Marc Maiffret, chief technical officer for BeyondTrust, a cybersecurity firm.