Businessman Sues Apple Over his Deleted Cheating Messages his Wife Discovered, Sparking their Divorce.

A businessman has decided to sue Apple after discovering "deleted" communications he sent to prostitutes on another iPhone, discovered by his spouse.

The middle-aged English guy who is cheating on his wife says Apple's lack of communication about communications that have been erased is the reason she filed for divorce.

He admitted to The Times that he had become a prostitute during the last years of his marriage and that he would communicate with them using the iPhone's iMessage programme before deleting the messages.

But finally, his wife found the messages on the family's iMac computer, along with some older ones he thought he had erased.

“If you are told a message is deleted, you are entitled to believe it’s deleted,” He told the Times newspaper. It’s all quite painful and quite raw still. It was a very brutal way of finding out [for my wife]. 

My thoughts are 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.” 

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 currently suing the company to recover the more than £5 million he lost during his divorce and associated legal fees. He alleges the company fails to disclose to users the possibility that deleted communications could resurface on other Apple products.

The businessman's attorney, Simon Walton of London's Rosenblatt, told the Telegraph that Apple "had not been clear with users as to what happens to messages they send and receive and, importantly, delete." 

 He said: “In many cases, the iPhone informs the user that messages have been deleted but, as we have seen, that isn’t true and is misleading because they are still found on other linked devices — something Apple doesn’t tell its users.

“I would be eager to hear from other Apple customers who have experienced similar issues”