‘I am mortified’: An iPhone user sent ‘sensitive pictures’ to a stranger’s phone after making this simple iMessage mistake — here’s how to avoid the same fate
- A mistake meant an iPhone user sent ‘sensitive’ texts to the wrong person
- Their partner’s phone number was associated with the wrong device
- The error happened when their partner didn’t properly reset their iPhone
When you sell an old iPhone, do you really know that it’s been fully wiped and disconnected from all your accounts? Because if you don’t, the consequences could be terrible — as one unfortunate Redditor has just vividly demonstrated. This particular story should come as a warning to any iPhone user who is thinking of getting rid of their device.
The Reddit thread in question has the alarming headline of "I may have accidentally been texting a child instead of my boyfriend?" It includes screenshots that show a conversation with someone who claimed that “You have the wrong number. This is a child’s phone.”
Worse, the original poster confided that the messages erroneously sent to...
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