A man is suing Apple after “deleted” messages he sent to sex workers were discovered by his wife on another device. The man, reportedly middle-aged and from England, alleges that Apple’s lack of transparency regarding deleted messages led to his wife filing for divorce.
He told The Times that he had turned to prostitutes in the final years of his marriage, using the iMessage app on his iPhone to contact them before deleting the texts. However, these messages were found by his wife on the family’s iMac computer, including messages he thought were erased years ago.
“If you are told a message is deleted, you are entitled to believe it’s deleted,” he told The Times. “It’s all quite painful and raw still. It was a very brutal way for my wife to find out. My thoughts are that if I had been able to talk to her rationally, and she had not had such a brutal realization of it, I might still be married.”
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He added, “Divorce is an extraordinarily stressful process, and you have children and family dynamics. In my opinion, it’s all because Apple told me my messages were deleted when they weren’t. If the message had said, ‘These messages are deleted on this device,’ that would have been a clue, or ‘These messages are deleted on this device only,’ that would have been even better.”
He is now pursuing legal action against Apple for the more than £5 million he lost in his divorce and legal costs, claiming the company does not make it clear to customers that deleted messages can appear on other Apple devices.
