@BercusNA Exactly. Takes 2 minutes and covers most of the realistic risk. Worth adding: keep iOS updated and use a strong passcode, since a stolen unlocked phone is a bigger risk than a sandbox escape.
I ran the same check on Phone with Claude Code.
[Result in one line, e.g. “found X files I thought were gone” or “found nothing, here’s what actually matters”]
plugged my iPhone into my Mac, made a backup and asked Claude Code to scan it. it flagged [real directory / real finding].
what was in there:
what I could NOT confirm: that any app can read this. iOS sandboxes apps, so the original claim sounds exaggerated.
what I did anyway:
• step 1 → Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos
• step 2 → check which apps have access, switch unneeded ones to Limited or None
• step 3 → turn on encrypted backups
• step 4 → delete screenshots of passwords, IDs, seed phrases
takes 2 minutes. bookmark it and send it to anyone with an iPhone.
Claude Code found every photo i "permanently deleted" from my iPhone.
almost 4 years of photos and videos sitting in a hidden cache on my
device. any app with file access can read them.
plugged my iPhone into my MacBook for a backup. had Claude Code running
a security scan from my last post. it flagged something i never asked
it to check. a directory called PhotoData/Thumbnails with over 152,000
files. photos, videos, screenshots. all stuff i deleted.
2022. 2023. 2024. 2025. photos i deleted within a second of taking them.
photos i went into Recently Deleted and cleared manually. photos i
deleted twice because i didn't trust the first time. all still there.
what was sitting in that cache:
a passport photo for a visa application in 2023
bank app screenshots with full account numbers visible
private photos i sent someone and deleted the same night after a breakup
a crypto seed phrase screenshot i took "for a minute" in 2022
my ID and credit card side by side, deleted 10 seconds later
my ex's private instagram stories i saved and "permanently deleted"
in 2024
152,417 files. some at full resolution. all organized by date going
back to 2021.
when you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS removes it from your camera roll
and your Recently Deleted folder. but it keeps a compressed copy in a
Spotlight search index cache. that's how your phone finds photos when
you type a word in search. Apple never clears it. not after 30 days.
not after a year. they told you it was permanently deleted. it wasn't.
checked which apps on my phone had Files and Folders access. 19 apps.
weather apps. QR scanners. PDF readers. a flashlight app from 2021.
any of them could've been reading every photo i ever "deleted" this
whole time.
went from 19 apps to 3 in about a minute.
full step by step is below. takes 2 minutes. bookmark it so you don't
lose it and send it to anyone with an iPhone.
THIS GUY IS CLAIMING $475 A DAY FROM CLAUDE + KIDS SHORTS
He’s connecting OpenArt directly inside Claude so he can generate full animated shorts without leaving the chat.
Here’s the workflow he showed:
→ Go to Claude
→ Customia
→ Connectors
→ Add a custom connector
→ Go to https://t.co/PplqHu2QPI and copy the link
→ Paste it into Claude and connect
→ Find a kids channel already pulling millions of views
→ Screenshot the page
→ Paste the screenshot + a prompt into Claude
→ It generates the full short
He showed it generating a toddler firefighter cartoon and said you can also vibe direct videos up to 5 minutes.
Revenue dashboard on screen: $10,068.
Bookmark this before the format gets more saturated.
Anthropic engineer:
“Anthropic hired me at $350K–$950K because I know how to build harnesses.
99% of people still hand-roll multi-agent systems and wonder why they break.
I build systems that run loops + sandbox tools + turn yesterday’s logs into new skills — same model, 10x more reliable agents that keep improving overnight.”
Opus 5.5 → Agents → Harness → Loops → Graphs
In a short workshop, he shows exactly how to build one from scratch.
step 1 → harness handles loops, context, and sandboxing
step 2 → brain and hands separated — 60% faster to first token
step 3 → runs server-side, resumes from the log after crashes
step 4 → failure is cheap — retry and replay instead of starting over
step 5 → yesterday’s logs become new memory — the system wakes up smarter
Anthropic calls this “dreaming”.
Most people spend weeks building this by hand.
You don’t have to.
Bookmark and watch it.
Then read the full Opus 5.5 harness engineering guide below ↓
Opus 5.5 has been nerfed? Confirmed 🤯
Everyone was talking about it yesterday, so I tested it myself.
Same prompt. Launch → Oct 3 → today. Worse every time.
And it burns tokens faster. 😱🤦