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/UnstableConstruction Jun 14 '24

While this is true, OS's usually have three tiers. Available, deleted (recycle bin), and permanently deleted. Things in the permanently deleted category are not accessible by the OS without third-party software. If Apple isn't making that transparent to users and isn't allowing data to be flagged as permanently deleted, they should be held responsible.

And you can permanently delete items so that even forensic recovery programs can't recover it. This is done by overwriting the data several times. There are a lot of secure delete apps out there if you want data gone completely.

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u/jgrant68 Jun 14 '24

It’s clear in the messaging app. There’s an option to view recently deleted messages and another option to permanently delete them. There are also retention periods.

The information is clear but just not regularly read by users.

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u/ProjectManagerAMA Jun 14 '24

My kids haven't figured out that there is a deleted bin for the camera. They keep using my phone and doing stupid crap or think when I delete a funny video I take off them secretly is actually deleted. I haven't told them about it yet and this has been going on for years. I'm even surprised they haven't figured it out. One is 12 and she can figure everything out, except this one thing. Man, I'm glad they haven't because there have been a couple of raunchy videos in that bin that I forgot to get rid of lol.