A British man is ridiculously attempting to sue Apple following a divorce, caused by his wife finding messages to a prostitute he deleted from his iPhone that were still accessible on an iMac.

In the last years of his marriage, a man referred to as “Richard” started to use the services of prostitutes, without his wife’s knowledge. To try and keep the communications secret, he used iMessages on his iPhone, but then deleted the messages.

Despite being careful on his iPhone to cover his tracks, he didn’t count on Apple’s ecosystem automatically synchronizing his messaging history with the family iMac. Apparently, he wasn’t careful enough to use Family Sharing for iCloud, or discrete user accounts on the Mac.

The Times reports the wife saw the message when she opened iMessage on the iMac. She also saw years of messages to prostitutes, revealing a long period of infidelity by her husband.

    • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      I was a huge Signal advocate at one time and would try to get everyone to install it and use it. Man, woman or child, I didn’t care who it was. I was worse than a crypto-bro trying to jam BTC down everyone’s throat.

      I was chatting with a group of ladies at work and got a few of them to install it. When they did, Signal pushed notifications of them connecting to my wife’s phone.

      Needless to say, I got questioned fairly intensely about why there were other girls connecting with me on Signal.

      I wasn’t very keen on Signal after that.

      • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Interesting. I’ve never liked those notifications but I’ve seen people on Signal message boards defend them to the death. There’s no privacy issue! You’re only getting it because they’re already saved in your phone! This is a good scenario to illustrate the point.

      • onion@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        So your wife had them in her contacts, got notified her contacts joined signal, and the link to you is…?

        • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          This was an old feature, before it could be disabled.

          So, if my wife was in my contact list first and I was in hers, she would get notified when someone was added to mine.

          It was something like, “X has joined Signal on Y’s phone!!” or some bullshit like that.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      5 months ago

      Two things can be true lol. He should have insisted on disappearing messages and Signal use for the app but a lot of people are quite resistant to the notion that they don’t get to “keep” your conversations forever for whatever purpose they choose