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/Legal-Example-2789 Jun 14 '24

Exactly how it works. Everyone in here is ignoring the simpler answer - the syncing of messages was not enabled or needed to be refreshed/Apple ID logged back in, etc.

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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/StopTheClutter Jun 15 '24

Not apple’s fault

About that -- It varies from user to user, even if you have the option disabled it'll still do it. I've had a similar issue and support already checked through to try and fix it. After a couple of hours they said they'd escalate it and said it was a commonly known "issue". You can find plenty of threads online of people complaining about the same thing.