Bug: Deleted Emails Show up in Spotlight Search; Bug Fixed in iPhone OS 3.1
Bug: Deleted Emails Show up in Spotlight Search; Bug Fixed in iPhone OS 3.1
Back in July, iPhone user, Ted Landau had discovered a mystery bug in iPhone's Mail app after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0. He reported that when he used the new Spotlight feature, which was introduced in iPhone OS 3.0, he discovered emails that he had deleted long time back. He...
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the question still stands, if the e-mails in 3.1 are really deleted or if just spotlight doesn't show them...
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Very good question, let's hope the mails are deleted rather than Spotlight
not showing them. We'll let you know as soon as we get more details. -
I tried this yesterday after reading about it and it does show up in the Spotlight search, but after i tap on that old email it just displays a blank page. No actual email was displayed.
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Ok.. just tried again and some do show up.
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@luckas
The emails aren't really deleted anymore than they are on any computer. When things are deleted they are just marked as free space. I confirmed that the data is still on the phone in 3.1, but the index for search is cleared and doesn't link to the file anymore.See my post and new video for more info:
http://whenwillapple.com/blog/2009/08/18/how-the-3-1-spotlight-email-bug-fix-seems-to-work/ -
why calling it the 3.1, thats the only reason i opened this post, cuz i thought there was a new update or something from apple. shouldnt it be the 3.01 lol sorry for being so technical, but it might confuse some people out there.
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It appears to be fixed in the yet to be released iPhone 3.1.
