Q: Wife mysteriously signs in iCloud account on friend's phone.
My wife is good at a lot of things, but unfortunately, she is technically inept. Yesterday, when a friend tried to share a photo that she had on her iPhone, my wife took her friend's phone from her friend, and claims to have typed in my cell phone number, to forward the photo to me thru Messages. (I never received the photo.) Subsequently, her friend found my wife's calendar, contacts and to do list showing up on her phone, intermixed with her own data. When I looked at her friend's phone to troubleshoot, I found in the settings that she had somehow logged her friend's iPhone into her own iCloud account. Her friend's iPhone actually showed that it was registered with both her and my wife's iCloud accounts simultaneously, which I didn't even think was possible.
I managed to delete my wife's account from her friends phone, which also erased her friends contact list and calendar. Fortunately, even though her friend was unaware of the importance of backing up, she must have used the default settings with her iPhone setup, so that she was able to restore her contacts from iCloud.
I'm trying to figure out what she did, so that I can prevent her from doing it again, but I cannot reverse engineer what she did. In the meantime, I have begged her not to touch any phone or computer that is not hers. The security breach could have had serious consequences personally and financially, if the woman had not been a friend.
Can anyone with more experience figure out the steps necessary for the above to take place, so that I can warn my wife against this kind of thing? She has no idea how she did it, which I'm sure is true, and just a little frightening, but after 30 years, I'm getting used to it:) I'm starting to think she's some kind of Manchurian candidate who is a diabolical techno-terrorist during moments of unconsciousness. God help us, if she ever goes into politics.
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3.2
Posted on Jun 22, 2016 11:12 PM