Angus Kidman19 November 2008, 10:43 AM
"I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman. He says the Genius Bar at Apple told him it is an i-Phone glitch."
After a wife discovered emails on her husband's iPhone addressed to another woman and containing naked pictures of him, he apparently claimed the incriminating was due to a technical fault with the Apple phone rather than rampant adultery.
A post on Apple's support forum from a woman named only as Susan exposed the tawdry tale.
"I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture but says that he never sent it to anyone.
He claims that he went to the Genius Bar at the local Apple store and they told him that it is an i-Phone glitch: that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? The future of my marriage depends on this answer!"
While the tale is amusing, it's not at all clear that the post was genuine. No such fault is documented in Apple's online support system, and it seems unlikely that a technology beginner would capitalise the phrase 'Genius Bar' while misspelling 'iPhone'.
A subsequent reply from "Susan" in which she graphically described the picture doesn't add to the credibility of the tale. "I wanted to remain open to the possibility that it was all some big mistake (I think that he is the big mistake) and thank everyone who provided input on this discussion," she wrote.
Most people responding on the forum derided Susan for her apparent cluelessness. "Your husband is cheating on you. You have the evidence. Now take him for everything he has," one poster commented.
One commenter did helpfully add, though, "It's a glitch, but only happens if the pic is sufficiently raunchy."