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/

24 Comments

  1. what a liar, all he lost was half the assets plus legal costs, and if he had confessed, no legal costs – just a modest agreement cost. He talks from the position that her stuff is his stuff already. A person so broken that he resorts to the impersonal robot sex of hookers deserves what he gets!!

  2. It’s funny when the technology you love and how conveniently it all connects and works together is awful when working as intended but the outcome is against you.

  3. He’s got a point. What if you were an abused spouse and sent messages to a friend explaining the situation, then you delete them expecting privacy, only for your partner to discover those messages and beat you to death. 

     While his situation is immorale to most, Apple’s actions cannot be ignored. If you can’t see a situation where having deleted messages resurface could be bad, you simply lack imagination.

  4. kspjrthom4444 on

    Disregarding the piece of shit he is, he has a tough case to win.  he has to prove that any reasonable person would assume that delete covers more than just the device you are deleting from.  

    Given there is clear motivation for revenge he as an even harder case to win.

  5. I do think this needs to change. Deleted on one device should delete it on every logged in device. That’s how one would expect it work and as such it should work that way. Regardless of the scenario, this needs changed.

  6. He was signed into iMessage on a computer and forgot. Partially at fault there.

  7. Badassmcgeepmboobies on

    Damn I gotta delete someone’s message off my iPad now 🤣🤣🤣

  8. vomitHatSteve on

    What would be funny is if he won the case, but then the judge said “since the harm done to you occurred during the scope of the marriage, the judgement is considered a marital asset. You owe half the gross to your ex-wife”

  9. 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.

  10. EggandSpoon42 on

    Man I spent hours deleting text messages from years because I had so stupid many that collected and were wasting space. Then found them on my macbook the next morning – pissed me off so much. They just live there now I guess

  11. SniffUmaMuffins on

    He set up iMessage on his *family iMac*, used iMessage on his phone to message prostitutes, deleted the messages from his phone, didn’t delete them from his Mac, got caught by his wife.

    First of all, he’s a cheating lowlife.

    Second of all, he linked his iMessage account to a *shared family computer user account*, so he’s not a very bright cheating lowlife.

    Screw this guy, I hope he loses his case and gets to pay a bunch of legal fees too, he had it all coming.

  12. Think_Inspector_4031 on

    It’s lazy coding

    The three letter organization needs a copy of all your text messages as well. Then Apple would need to make sure only your other devices have chats deleted, but the government keeps a copy.

  13. isn’t solicitation of escorts illegal? Is it possible he wins the lawsuit, and then is charged with sex solicitation?

  14. IronChefJesus on

    Wait so if you delete a photo on your phone, it deletes it on iCloud and all your devices (well, “deletes”) making iCloud just temporary photo storage.

    But your text messages remain? Should that not be the other way around?

  15. Glittering_Ad_3806 on

    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.

  16. I’m confused, I literally just tested this. I deleted a message on my phone and watched it delete on my iPad.

    Did Apple recently change this, or is just a matter of the computer being offline and not syncing since he deleted the ?