The plaintiff alleges that Apple is unclear with confirmation of deleted messages!
The case file against Apple may well be made up of those that are endless, those that have cost millions, and others that seem destined not to prosper. In this last category we could insert the claim of a man against Apple, due to the damages generated after his wife found the cause to file for divorce in the messages, supposedly deleted from the iPhone, on the iMac.
According to an iMore article, The plaintiff exchanged iMessage messages with prostitutes to schedule meetings. Although he claims to have deleted them from the device, His wife found all the text messages, which revealed years of messages to prostitutes, by accessing iMessage on the family’s shared iMac.
Failure to interpret Apple specifications can be costly
NOW, the man is hoping to get £5 million in damages, based on the argument that “if you are told a post has been deleted, you have the right to believe it has been deleted “. With this figure, he hopes to finance legal costs, money lost in the divorce caused by his infidelity and the emotional damage that results from it. According to statements to the Times:
I really thought I was going to have a heart attack. Divorce is an extremely stressful process and you have children and family dynamics. In my opinion, it’s because Apple told me my messages were deleted when in reality they weren’t.
At the same time, the Rosenblatt law firm, based in London, has agreed to represent the plaintiff and is trying file a class action lawsuit appealing to other iPhone users who have experienced the same error. According to Simon Walton of Rosenblatt:
In many cases, the iPhone informs the user that the messages have been deleted but, as we have seen, this is not true and is misleading because they are still on other linked devices, which ‘Apple doesn’t tell its users.
At the date, Apple has not commented on this lawsuit, but according to the company’s supporting documents, it would be protected against the cause of this claim.. Apple’s guidelines for deleting messages state:
If you use Messages in iCloud, deleting a message or conversation on your Mac removes it from all your devices that have Messages in iCloud enabled.
Since what Apple pointed out was precisely what did not happen to the plaintiff It’s likely that your iCloud is not linked to the device.
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