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tht said:

I made a mistake buying the iPhone 12 when I should have gotten the iPhone 12 Pro. If your usage habits is to keep an iPhone for 4 to 5 years, get the Pro models. My wife has the 12 Pro, and every time I use it, it seems "faster". Not sure what it is. Perhaps the 6 GB of RAM?

So, if you are getting a phone for 4 to 5 or more years, it behooves you to get the more expensive versions.

mike1 said:

aross99 said:

mike1 said:

I really hope they separate the scanning capability from Notes.

It really should be part of Camera. Open camera app, select scan, take pic (scan). Ask me what to do with it (like a screenshot does). Message, email, save to Photos or Files, save as Note etc. 

I often need to send PDF scans of documents. I never need to save them as a note.

Using this feature as a part of Notes adds a lot of unnecessary steps and time to the process, including deleting the unnecessary note I just created.

You can also scan in the files app and save them directly to your iCloud Drive.  This makes much more sense if the destination of the scan is NOT going into a note.

Did not know that. Thanks!.

M68000 said:

I’m thinking the database or databases store status and pointers to where the actual files are, which would have to be on server farms somewhere.  How could all this be local and have people freeing up actual space when they delete pictures on their iPhones?

gatorguy said:

appleinsideruser said:

Thinking some more about this, I think there's a likely simple explanation. Photos stores images in an opaque hierarchy of folders. I recall in the days of iPhoto that during upgrades it would scan the iPhoto Library and sometimes discover lost images and add them back into the index (database).

I suspect the same has happened here — the entry of the image in the database was removed, but the image in local storage was accidentally left on local disk.

I would think if it were "local storage" corruption, Apple would emphasize that and dispel any questions or concerns whether they might be maintaining deleted files on Apple servers.  Instead it was a vague "database corruption" which implies it was not local.

With Apple as great as they are about explaining things, especially involving potentially bad looks, if the photos were stored locally they would have said so, correct?