I recently found a rather romantic exchange on my boyfriend's iPad. He insists that he does not have any record of this exchange on his iPhone (which is linked to his iPad) nor does he know the phone number that sent the messages. The iPad has the other person initiating the conversation and his responses. Is it possible that he was hacked, or is he simply lying?
How Imessages come up on the phone bill? As texts oor data/emails?
Best Answer
The devices are connected with iCloud, so if you receive a message on iPhone, the same message appears on iPad. They are synchronised... but they are synchronised by a COPY. If you remove a message from one device, it still exists on other devices. And deletions are permanent for a device (iPad, iPod, iPhone). So, he forgot to erase the copy. But is not the same with contacts, or calendar. Removing event, or contact from one device will cause the same action for another devices. They are synchronised fully.
About messages, they are synchronised only when receiving or sending messages, not when removing.
So, there is a hope for you, if your boyfriend has a MacBook too. :-) They are not removed permanently from MacBook. Just send to that person any message from another device. Then a whole thread will be restored on his MacBook :-) If it happens then you are sure - he is lying.
It is impossible for an iPhone/iPad to be hacked by someone else.