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.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If you had deleted in Signal that would sync right away before it visually rendered all the contacts and message content. False equivalence

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      6 months ago

      Fair point. Signal would ask me if I want to delete on this device only or on all devices though, does iMessage do that too?

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        6 months ago

        I don’t think that’s the case, I believe its either

        1. Delete for me
        2. Delete for everyone

        Delete for me inherently deletes for your associated devices using that Signal account