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BREAKING: Claude Code found 12,847 photos of my face on my iPhone that I never took. It looked like the phone was taking them every time I picked it up. From the club. From home. At a red light while I was driving. Almost every time I took the phone in my hands there was a frame. They were sitting in a system cache with timestamps and location data. None of them were in Photos. I plugged the phone into my MacBook and asked Claude Code to scan for any front-camera files that weren’t in my Photos library or Recently Deleted. It flagged Private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.faceid. Over 12,000 files. Mix of infrared frames and regular front-camera images. Each one had a timestamp and GPS coordinates attached. I started scrolling. Most were from the last 14 months. Then I saw one from four seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Apple says the TrueDepth system turns the capture into a mathematical model inside the Secure Enclave and discards the image. On this phone the raw frames were still in the cache. Several of the processes that wrote to the folder belonged to system diagnostics. A couple of old apps with camera permission also had access to the same directory. I turned off diagnostics sharing and revoked camera access from every app that didn’t need it. If you want to check your own phone, plug it in, run a backup, and ask Claude Code to look for front-camera files outside the Photos library. The folder path above is where mine were.

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