Diablo Immortal has a fresh bug report that hits one of the scariest little corners of any loot game: the moment you trust the lock icon to protect something important.
A new official Diablo Immortal bug report claims that locked items can still be salvaged under a very specific bulk-salvage scenario. That is not a world-ending bug. It is worse in the small, personal way only loot games understand. Nobody wants their carefully saved gear turned into materials because the safety switch decided to take the afternoon off.
The bug appears tied to bulk salvage
According to the report, the issue happens when an item has already been selected for bulk salvage. The player says they long-pressed the item to open its stats window, tapped the lock icon, and expected that to protect it from being destroyed.
Instead, they say the item stayed in the salvage list and was still salvaged. Beautiful. Terrible. The kind of thing that makes players start treating every button in town like it might be a cursed altar.
The report is specific, but not universal
This is not currently framed as a confirmed widespread issue by Blizzard. It is a player-submitted bug report in the iOS section, and the original poster lists an iPhone 14 Pro Max running Diablo Immortal app version 4.3.0.
Another player in the thread says they normally use the lock function on PC without trouble, and that locking an item removes it from the salvage list for them. A later comment suggests the issue may no longer be happening on PC, while the original poster adds that they included a screen recording showing the locked item still being salvaged.
So for now, this looks like a very specific bug-watch item rather than a blanket “all locked gear is unsafe” panic. Still, it is exactly the sort of report Diablo Immortal players should notice before doing a tired late-night salvage sweep.
Locked should mean locked
The reason this matters is simple: item locking exists to create trust. Players use it because Diablo throws loot at them constantly, and without protection, one careless cleanup session can become a tiny personal tragedy with gem slots.
Diabloz recently covered how Fierce Pursuit reward math has players worried, and this new report sits in the same uncomfortable category: not necessarily huge on paper, but very irritating if it hits your account.
Double-check before you press salvage
Until Blizzard comments or the issue is patched, the safest move is boring but sensible: if you decide to keep something during bulk salvage, remove it from the salvage list entirely instead of relying only on locking it from the item details window.
Loot games live and die on tiny rituals. Lock the good stuff. Salvage the trash. Keep the upgrades. Move on. When that ritual gets weird, even briefly, players are right to get suspicious. In Diablo Immortal, losing a fight is annoying. Losing gear to a confused lock icon is pure psychological damage.
