An embarrassing bug has resurfaced on the iPhone, judging by online complaints: a bug that brings to light old web searches that many would like to keep private.
Some Apple users are finding that their devices are displaying older adult content at unwanted times, despite their best efforts to clear browser history, tabs, and cookies, even after ensuring they view risqué content only in ‘mode’. incognito’.
“I have a pretty new iPhone and this is happening,” confessed one Apple fan. “Old porn video stuck in Firefox preview mode, although it only happens in landscape (mode).”
Another user told horror stories about their iPhone displaying YA content while “people were looking over my shoulder while I was showing them something.”
‘My mom was one of them’, the owner of the iPhone published in Reddit with crying emoji.
The glitch echoes recent warnings about Apple’s Mirroring feature, which security experts warned this month could inadvertently share users’ private information with others, particularly when enabled on iPhones, iPads and other work-issued devices. .
The resurgence of these two mortifying privacy flaws could be related to the release of Apple’s new iOS 18 operating system, which has brought with it a number of irritating issues, including reports that iOS 18.1 is inexplicably draining your battery.
An embarrassing and deadly bug has resurfaced on the iPhone, judging by online complaints. “I have a pretty new iPhone and this is happening,” one Apple fan confessed last September. ‘Old porn video stuck in Firefox preview mode’
“I’m afraid of other people looking at or holding my phone or iPad,” said an Apple customer who reported owning an iPhone 11 posted on Reddit two years ago.
‘Many people have mentioned a similar problem with Safari (Apple’s browser), but there is no solution. How can I stop this from happening!!!!?’ asked user, baka-420. “I have deleted all cookies and history components, etc. The problem is not solved.”
But just two months ago, this dormant thread came back to life with new reports about the bug affecting embarrassed users of newer iPhone models.
“This has happened to me on several phones, over the years,” said one embarrassed user, Secret_Account07, published in mid-September. “Nothing I did could get rid of him.”
“I don’t know (don’t know) why Apple can’t fix this, iOS is clearly caching the image for landscape mode,” the user continued.
“It’s been a problem for years and it’s not a complex problem that requires a team of engineers (…) Apple, please fix this,” the user pleaded.
This most recent iPhone owner informed the group that they were finally able to fix the problem, after much trial and error, by “uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox.”
But even with some kind of makeshift solution available, many of these iPhone users were still outraged: “It’s a problem that has the potential to lead to very inappropriate things.” “Imagine a child using their phone or showing them something on their phone.”
Just two months ago, a dormant thread warning about this ‘glitch’ came back to life on Reddit with new reports about the issue affecting embarrassed users of newer iPhones.
The resurgence of these two mortifying privacy flaws could be related to the release of Apple’s new iOS 18 operating system, which has brought with it a number of irritating issues, with some saying that iOS 18.1 is inexplicably draining your battery.
Another concerned iPhone owner speculated that something more malicious than a simple bug or glitch could be at work.
“I have exactly the same problem,” they chimed in. “It’s super strange.” I wonder if it’s some kind of virus. I don’t know, but it doesn’t make any sense why I would show a porn site, when I don’t even have a porn site in any of my tabs.’
While Apple has yet to comment on the issue, tech industry observers have reported that the issue appears to be linked to cached images of an individual iPhone.
In some cases, unwanted images appear to appear when users They are swiping up to switch from one app to another.
For those who browse the web with Chrome and Firefox, deleting and redownloading your web browser seems to be the most foolproof way to solve the problem.
But unfortunately, that solution doesn’t work with Apple’s built-in Safari browser.
The best way to clean images cached on any device running Safari through Apple’s iOS (whether it’s a laptop, desktop, iPad, or iPhone) is to routinely delete your Internet history.
The process is a little complicated, but Easy-to-follow instructions from Apple They are available online.
One way to delete cached images is to first go to Settings > Privacy > Clear browsing data and then select “Cached images and files.”
Or, to clear your history directly from Safari and only for Safari, tap the “bookmark” icon button within the Safari app, tap the “history” button (clock), and then tap Clear.
Apple warns, however, that users should be careful if they have different profiles in their Safari browser, as is common on the family iPad: “If you have Safari profiles set up, select a profile to clear only the history for that profile, or select All”. Profiles.’