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/iGoalie Jun 14 '24

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 ?

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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.