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Man sues Apple for accidentally exposing his infidelity (appleinsider.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Except he used the same account for his prostitute texting device as for the family pc.
It's simple user error. You can't have privacy from someone else who shares the same login.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I don't have any Apple devices so I don't understand why deleting the message from one device doesn't delete it from another. What is the point of a sync in that case?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'm not sure about the specifics in the Apple ecosystem but I imagine it's like an email address that's connected as IMAP on one main PC, and as POP3 on your phone.
You can download the mails you need to your phone to read them and answer them on the go.
But the mail server is synched to the PC. So deleting stuff on your phone just deletes the messages on your phone, not on the server and not on the PC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IMAP actually deletes an mail for all the clients.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

yes, that's what I wrote.

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