Apple Accused of Retaining Deleted Notes in iCloud Even After 30-Day Grace Period
Russian software company ElcomSoft is digging into Apple's software again, and this time it reveals new info about iPhone's famous Notes app. Apparently, Apple is retaining deleted notes in iCloud, even after the 30-day grace period. Apple's note-taking app allows for iCloud syncing, allowing users to access their notes on any Apple device using the Apple ID and password. If you delete a note in the app, the note is stored in the 'Recently Deleted' folder on iCloud.com for 30 days. After the grace period is over, Apple is supposed to destroy the note forever, from iCloud as well. However, ElcomSoft claims to have found that Apple is retaining these deleted notes in iCloud, even though they don't appear in the 'Recently Deleted' folder. Elcomsoft used its Phone Breaker 6.50 software to demo the extraction of deleted notes from the iCloud server. It says that not all notes were recovered from every account, however for some accounts; they wer...