An apparent bug in Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 software allows users to find e-mails even after they have been deleted from the user's in-box and trash folders. The bug has reportedly been fixed in the iPhone OS 3.1 beta.An apparent bug in iPhone
OS 3.0 allows users to sometimes get their hands on e-mail messages that are
supposed to be deleted.
The issue seems to affect
both the
iPhone and iPod Touch. In a video demonstration on
YouTube, a man named Matt Janssen demonstrates how to recover e-mail
messages even after they have been deleted from the users in-box and trash
file. Using a second-generation iPod Touch with the 3.0 software, he was able
to view messages that were months old despite them having been deleted.
These messages are still
on the iPod somewhere even after you delete them, but you cant find them
without searching for them, he said.
To find the e-mails, users
can leverage a search feature known as Spotlight, which is meant to enable
users to quickly find applications, e-mails, music and other files. The
apparent bug allows users to leverage Spotlight to pull up deleted
e-mail.
Apple did not respond to a
request for comment on the issue. There have been reports, however, that
the situation does
not impact the iPhone OS 3.1 beta.
This is a security
issue, a bug, and hopefully Apple will fix it in some later releases,
Janssen said.