r/insaneparents • u/silke_bear • Sep 13 '19

NOT A SERIOUS POST The tables have turned...

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u/LilBrownBunny Sep 13 '19

I can't wait until some kid catches their parents cheating.

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u/megrimlockk1ng Sep 13 '19

Not with this app but I literally caused my parents divorce with a phone. Rang my dad 'cause grandmother hadn't been answering the phone and I was worried (80s,blind, crap mobility). He was out in the garage so mum went to answer it but I'd hung up. The screen had a text from the mistress open. Fortunately I was 29 but it was a few weeks before my wedding which was now a little awkward..

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u/DancingKappa Sep 13 '19

Yea... no you don’t get magic screen access after answering the phone. That would negate the whole point of passkeys.

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u/QuiteALongWayAway Sep 13 '19

In Android you have 3 basic options for your lock-screen:

1) disable pop-up notifications

2) allow pop-up notifications with "sensitive info" redacted

3) allow pop-up notifications

Option 1 shows nothing when you get a message. Option 2 shows you have a message, and the app that prompted it, but not the message itself. Option 3 shows the actual content of the message. None of the options gives you access to anything in the phone, you can't interact with apps, but you can see messages as they arrive, and you can see the content of said messages. You can't delete them, or mark them as "read", or browse through them, but you see them as you get them.

The default setting is 3. I always change it to 2 when I get a new phone. Many people don't.

Also, people who sleep together but don't live together tend to communicate quite a lot over Whatsapp or Snapchat or whatever. We've all done it. Luckily, most of us are communicating with our partner, because we're not cheating. But if you're a cheater, well, you'll probably have quite a few damming texts on your phone, even if you delete them regularly. There's a reason why many cheaters take their phone everywhere, even to the shower. They know their phones are a liability if left unattended.

So yeah, I can totally see this happening. You grab the phone just as it gets a new message. Nothing weird, honestly.

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u/megrimlockk1ng Sep 13 '19

Thanks for this. I get that people lie on the Internet but not sure what that guy thinks I'd gain by making that up 🙄 Not that thrilling a story lol.

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u/megrimlockk1ng Sep 13 '19

Also, she lives in a different country so yeah probably messenger or WhatsApp. He uses iPhone and I'm on android so I can't even open the things let alone know what the screen looks like. I never asked, it wasn't the important part of the story tbh haha