Apple stores your deleted notes for more than 30 days in iCloud

As you well know, the official Notes application on iOS stores us in iCloud for a certain period of time (exactly 30 days) those notes that we have deleted, in the section Recently Deleted We can choose to recover those deleted notes, something like what the Photos application does with the recently deleted photos and that allows us to recover the content in the event of an erroneous deletion. Nevertheless, the privacy issue comes to the fore again when we have information about how long Apple decides to keep our content stored in iCloud on its servers, in this case the deleted notes.

Again has been Elcom Soft who has taken note (pun intended) of how Apple treats our data stored in its cloud system. It is true that the Cupertino company has always publicly chosen to protect our data, that of its users. However, this type of attitude leads us to think that it is all a facade, a show for the public that really has little to do with reality, otherwise ... Why do they store our notes for more than 30 days in iCloud if we have deleted them? That is exactly what the boys of Elcom Soft and that will make your hair stand on end.

In their blog, they have concluded that Apple stores this data much longer, in fact, their tool has been able to extract fifty notes that had been deleted by the user much more than a month ago, in fact we found relative notes to the year 2012. Apparently, Apple is storing these notes for much longer than we are aware of, and we are not very clear why this attitude, since storing that content perennially poses a risk considering that a hacker could enter the iCloud servers (we hope not) and not only take our current information, but also that information that we had deleted at some point, because we didn't want him to be there.

A long history of data stored in iCloud

Not the first time Elcom Soft brings to light this type of information, not the first to find data in iCloud relating to periods of time that do not correspond to the systems that Apple sells us. However, software engineers have reported that they are not exact results, the notes obtained and their age would depend a lot on each account, that is, they have not found an obvious pattern about the reason for this prolongation in the time of the notes stored, which seems even more disturbing.

As we say, ElcomSoftware He told us months ago that Apple was storing a lot more Safari history in iCloud than we wanted, that is, it ignored the requests to delete the history and browsing data that we make manually on iOS and macOS. However, in this case Apple chose to correct this situation immediately, as much as the next day these relatively old data that should not appear in iCloud were progressively erased. In the same way, last year they found out it was relatively easy access to copies of iTunes supposedly encrypted, a problem that Apple also solved almost instantly.

But solving the problems that others find is not the solution, Apple should know that not only does it put our current data in danger, but it also puts some data that we got rid of in its day, and for more reason they should not be present in any server. Apple could consider getting the hang of it if you want to preserve our privacy as we are told, especially in the face of current situations of data theft as in the case of the WannaCry which has come to affect such powerful companies as BBVA and Telefónica. Too bad Apple, you're going to have to use the button suppress to get rid of that data.