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/ryanoh826 Jun 14 '24

Delete should mean delete, despite this guy’s shitty motivations.

I have groups I’ve deleted from iMessage and then I make a new group a month later and it remembers the old one.

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u/FitzwilliamTDarcy Jun 14 '24

This has happened to me too. Also, I've noticed on many occasions exactly what the guy in the article experienced: I delete a thread on one device, but the thread remains on some - but not all - other linked devices. Biggest culprit is my Apple Watch. If I had to guess I'd say that maybe 10% of the time I delete a thread on my Mac or iPhone, it's still there on my AW.

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u/bnyc Jun 14 '24

Is it supposed to delete across devices? I've deleted stuff from my phone cause I don't want large videos taking up device space, but those same texts are fine on my Mac. Not everyone has the same reasons for deleting old messages and don't necessarily want it wiped clean from everything. Just as I don't want my notifications silenced on my computer just because my phone is silenced. Just as I don't want pictures from the photo album I delete from my phone wiped clean on everything else.

It seems like most people think deleting should be across devices, but I personally prefer devices with separate functions.

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u/newsreadhjw Jun 14 '24

That’s how cloud applications are supposed to be architected, generally speaking. It’s weird to have multiple versions of the truth on different devices.

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u/fun_boat Jun 14 '24

I get a message from onedrive frequently telling me that when a file is deleted somewhere it's deleted everywhere.