How the 3.1 spotlight email bug fix seems to work
by Justin Horn on Aug 18th, 2009 @ 7:58 pmFollowing up on our iPhone 3.1 fix for the spotlight email bug post earlier I found that the deleted email itself is still in the iPhone memory. I tested this by keeping the spotlight search “alive” while preforming the delete. When returning to the saved spotlight the previous link is still shown and is still an active link to the deleted email, similar to how 3.0 bug works.
Not to worry though, as soon as you clear the search the deleted email is no longer referenced in future searches. So it seems even though the data is still on the phone the spotlight index (or at least the specific index referencing the deleted message) is now being cleared / updated immediately after deleting an email message in 3.1.
For those of you that don’t think this is a good enough fix since the data is still on the iPhone keep in mind that most computers don’t erase data when something is deleted, but just mark it as free. So the fact that the data is still on the phone is no more a security hole than using Outlook on any desktop computer.
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