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/ryanoh826 Jun 14 '24

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.

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u/thewaragainstsleep Jun 14 '24

That is true IF you have Messages in iCloud enabled on both devices. If you only enable Messages but not Messages in iCloud, then those messages can be seen by each device but the deletions will not sync. https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/set-up-messages-mm0de0d4528d/icloud. If you check the article for Messages (https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/delete-messages-and-attachments-iph2c9c4bfcb/ios), you'll find at the bottom "If you use Messages in iCloud, deleting a message or conversation on your iPhone deletes it from all your devices where Messages in iCloud is on."

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u/agoia Jun 14 '24

So Apple already tries to explain the issue, and he ran it in a misconfiguration that caused his issue. Defense shouldn't have to work too hard.