Re: Man plans to sue Apple after ‘deleted’ messages reveal he cheated.

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

On 2024-06-14, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

A man is preparing to sue Apple for more than £5 million after
‘deleted messages’ he sent to sex workers were discovered by his wife.
 
The unfaithful husband claims that Apple’s lack of transparency over
deleted messages has led to his wife filing for divorce.
 
Richard, not his real name, is reportedly a middle aged man from
England, and revealed to The Times that he had turned to sex workers
in the final years of his marriage. He would contact them via the
iMessages app on his iPhone before deleting the incriminating texts.
 
However, when his wife went on the family iMac, the messages, going
back several years, popped up despite him believing he had deleted
them.
 
She filed for divorce within a month.
 
He told The Times: ‘If you are told a message is deleted, you are
entitled to believe it’s deleted.

 
The guy didn't have Messages in iCloud enabled, so when he deleted them
from one device they remained on the other devices signed into the same
iCloud account. Expecting them to be deleted from his other devices
despite not having Messages in iCloud enabled is irrational. His
"problem" is the result of user error. So, like so many others, this
frivolous lawsuit will go nowhere. 😉
 

The behavior of that setting is the first time I’ve heard it described this
way. I doubt the average person would know to enable that setting to delete
their messages on the him computer too.

If that setting was not enabled on his phone, how did his messages even
make it to iCloud for them to be replicated on the iMac?