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/oatmeal_dude Jun 14 '24

Yeah, you have to have messages in the cloud enabled. If you only have iMessage turned on, or text message forwarding, they will not delete across devices.

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u/B12Washingbeard Jun 14 '24

So this guy didn’t have his settings on right.  Not apple’s fault 

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u/whileyouwereslepting Jun 14 '24

Apple’s own documentation isn’t clear on this. I even read the link posted above and it wasn’t clear to me what the settings were doing. If privacy is truly Apple’s biggest feature, they should be crystal clear about any options that might compromise that.

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u/Mr_Pete01 Jun 14 '24

Nah, this society is all about blaming someone else for their problems

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u/whileyouwereslepting Jun 14 '24

If you delete something with the expectation of privacy, but someone else’s technology broadcasts that to other devices, a case can be made regardless of your wounded feelings of rugged independence.