Ios 8.3 recovered my "permanently" deleted photos

I just updated to ios 8.3 and my camera roll is full of old photos which I had permanently deleted. In addition, the "recently deleted" folder was full of photos (with the timer set to delete permanently in 30 days) but which I had previously already "permanently" deleted, or so I thought. I don't use the icloud photo library, and they aren't in any photostreams. They should have been permanently deleted. This is a privacy concern. Where were these photos being stored? If I delete them again now, will they still be stored somewhere?

jennfat wrote:
I just updated to ios 8.3 and my camera roll is full of old photos which I had permanently deleted. In addition, the "recently deleted" folder was full of photos (with the timer set to delete permanently in 30 days) but which I had previously already "permanently" deleted, or so I thought. I don't use the icloud photo library, and they aren't in any photostreams. They should have been permanently deleted. This is a privacy concern. Where were these photos being stored? If I delete them again now, will they still be stored somewhere?
There was a bug in several versions prior to 8.3 that resulted in deleted photos only being removed from the list, but not removed from the phone's memory. This was fixed, so now those photos show up so you can really delete them.

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