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.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That’s conservatism for ya, can’t divorce and just be happier people for it because sky daddy might be mad

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      5 months ago

      It’s probably mostly due to not wanting to pay spousal support and control issues.

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          5 months ago

          There are two people using resources. Should’ve broadened my set, let me revise that now: greed and control issues. Thanks for the catch.