iOS 18.4 Bug Seemingly Resurrects Previously Deleted iPhone Apps

Apple's latest iOS 18.4 bundle update appears to beryllium causing long-deleted apps to reappear connected immoderate users' iPhones, based connected corroborating reports connected forums and societal media.


Several Reddit threads (1,2,3,4) and posts connected Apple's Community Support pages implicit the past 24 hours are filled with reports from users who, aft having updated to iOS 18.4, instantly discovered third-party apps and/or games installed connected their instrumentality that were not determination before.

Going connected the reports, the iOS 18.4 update has manifested a bug that is causing apps to reappear – since successful astir cases it appears that the apps had been deleted by the users months oregon adjacent years agone and agelong forgotten. Apple released iOS 18.4 connected Monday.

The behaviour doesn't look to beryllium related to Apple's Automatic Downloads enactment either. The mounting enables automatic downloads of apps purchased connected different Apple devices. However, galore affected users accidental they bash not ain different Apple device.

Likewise, the bug is impacting users with devices that person ne'er been jailbroken and person ne'er utilized an alternate marketplace extracurricular of the App Store.

It's not wide however prevalent the glitch is, but not everyone is affected, suggesting it could beryllium related to determination oregon instrumentality model. As it stands, the existent solution for affected users is conscionable to re-delete the reappearing app portion we await further details astir the issue.

(Thanks, Tanner!)
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