Twitter app’s strange behavior on Huawei phones

Recently a thread emerged on Reddit where some users of Huawei phones started experiencing strage behavior with the Twitter application. Apparently, when they tried to download a photo from Twitter, images instantly appear to be deleted. 

Immediately after saving an image, a notification from "Huawei System Services" says that "Twitter has deleted a photo from Gallery". Some users were enraged by this because they thought that Huawei was doing this intentionally to prevent users save images from Twitter.

An official statement by Huawei was released in regards to this problem.

Having investigated the issue, Huawei has discovered that whenever users of certain devices download an image using specific builds of the Twitter app (version 7.78.0 and 7.77.0), the app will automatically create a folder of the same name as the image and promptly delete it in the background. This action triggers Huawei’s built-in image protection alert, causing the system to notify the user of the deletion. However, the images are not affected. Users may find their images at the following location: File Manager/picture/Twitter.

The most probable explanation for this is that there is a glitch somewhere, and we don't yet know whether Huawei or Twitter should release a fix, or maybe even both.

Huawei is currently in conversation with Twitter to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Huawei remains committed to delivering the best user experiences.

It seems that the photos weren't exactly deleted, they are still on the users' phones, it's just that the app interacts with EMUI in a strange way which makes the system's security measures mark the image as deleted.

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