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Man sues Apple for accidentally exposing his infidelity (appleinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A British man is ridiculously attempting to sue Apple following a divorce, caused by his wife finding messages to a prostitute he deleted from his iPhone that were still accessible on an iMac.

In the last years of his marriage, a man referred to as "Richard" started to use the services of prostitutes, without his wife's knowledge. To try and keep the communications secret, he used iMessages on his iPhone, but then deleted the messages.

Despite being careful on his iPhone to cover his tracks, he didn't count on Apple's ecosystem automatically synchronizing his messaging history with the family iMac. Apparently, he wasn't careful enough to use Family Sharing for iCloud, or discrete user accounts on the Mac.

The Times reports the wife saw the message when she opened iMessage on the iMac. She also saw years of messages to prostitutes, revealing a long period of infidelity by her husband.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Isn’t messages in iCloud off by default? I feel like I had to actively enable this in a preference panel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I think it's changed recently. Even if you have icloud messaging on you used to have to explicitly turn it on per device. But I recently got a new iPad and when I went to check that setting it was already on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

iPad / iOS I think is on by default, but not macOS. Maybe I’m wrong though.

[–] Maeve 1 points 11 months ago

I had to turn it on, but that was a 6s. Currently running android without much storage and I'm loathe to back up to cloud, unless it's business that doesn't require extra privacy, but may needed as a reference, later.

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