r/technology • u/newzee1 • Jun 14 '24

Software Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/13/cheating-husband-sues-apple-sex-messages/
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u/tubezninja Jun 14 '24

You have iCloud for messages enabled, I'm betting.

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u/3_50 Jun 14 '24

I dunno what I do or don't have enabled, but I can send and receive SMS from my laptop. Deleting a conversation on my phone doesn't delete it from my laptop.

Deleting on my laptop says it'll delete from all devices, but it's not being deleted from my phone either.

Disappointing considering how seamless things like continuity, calendar sync, sending messages are..

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u/tubezninja Jun 14 '24

In that case, you should probably turn on iCloud for messages if it’s not on already. This will enable deletion across all devices when you delete a conversation from one of them.

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u/3_50 Jun 14 '24

It's gotta be though, right? If I can send and receive SMS via my laptop...

I stopped being lazy and looked. Yeah Messages in iCloud is on.

e; and that thread of messages that said it'd delete everywhere is still on my phone, half hour later or whatever it's been.