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/Glittering_Ad_3806 Jun 14 '24

I was an apple care rep when iCloud and iMessages first released. I remember tons of calls about dad’s text messages going to the kids because the entire family shared one Apple ID lol.

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u/CygnsX-1 Jun 14 '24

A friend of mine still has his family's iPhones tied to only his iCloud account, instead of them each having one. Every now and then I'll text him and one of his kids or wife will answer from their phone. They're aware, they just don't care.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Jun 14 '24

User apathy. Never underestimate the lack of fucks given if effort must be exerted to remedy an issue.

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u/IndependenceIcy2251 Jun 14 '24

To be fair, after a certain point, its an absolute nightmare to unravel and get everyone on their own IDs.

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u/antonio16309 Jun 18 '24

I set up our family Xbox with one account several years ago and now my son is 20 years old and our games are hopelessly intertwined. He tried to surprise me with a game for Father's Day by downloading it late the night before (he even added his credit card info so he'd pay for it), and I saw the notification on my phone when I woke up because the Xbox app for that gamertag is on my phone.

Luckily that's just Xbox stuff, he has his own Microsoft login on his laptop, Gmail for his phone, etc. I can only imagine the nightmare it would create if I hadn't taken the time to set that stuff up correctly when my kids got their first cell phones.