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Putting the d'oh! in Adobe: 'Years of photos' permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update

Jason Hindle

Some perspective

A lot of these photos would have been taken on the iThing by users who didn’t sync to iCloud, Adobe, Google Photos, OneDrive or even Amazon. I think all of them require some sort of subscription if you have a lot of photos to back up, which is fair enough. But they also have a free tier (15GB on Google, for example). So, we have a situation where if you have a lot of photos on your iThing, you need to back them up to something physical or you need to pay a subscription to someone. I’m inclined to recommend Amazon Prime because of all the other stuff you get with it. That said, a sizeable boost to iCloud storage isn't going to be too expensive for most.

As always, it’s going to have been the lowest levels of the demographic scale who will have been hit most by Adobe’s little <cough >accident</cough>. People who’ve sensibly bought a very decent smartphone, second hand, probably have the best pre paid or SIM only deal they can get, and have priorities incompatible with another monthly subscription to keep track of.

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