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“I’m Forever Traumatized”: 39 Times Phones Helped Uncover Hidden Truths
Article created by: Mantas Kačerauskas
The first iPhone was made in 2007, and today, a smartphone is the one thing that most of us have. In 2022, half of Americans said they can't imagine their lives without their smartphones, and 83% of adults keep their smartphones near them almost all the time during waking hours.
But it's not just our own smartphones we love: we're no strangers to snooping through other people's phones, too. When it comes to our partners, 19% of Americans admit they've gone through their SO's phone without permission.
What's on their phone can say a lot about a person and can even be a gateway to their innermost world. Sometimes, we take a peek and see something that surprises us – both in good and bad ways.
Recently, people shared the wildest and most wholesome things they've seen on someone else's phone when netizen @simplysamythings asked: "What's something you saw on someone's phone… that changed how you see them forever?"
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#1
My husband has a notes tab with any and everything I ever mentioned I liked or wanted. I’m talking links to the items, prices, places we were at, specific scents, colors, flavors, my coffee order 😭
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#2
The old-school version of this...dad has my baby photo still in his wallet. He's 79 and I'm 54 ❤️
#3
For the longest time, I thought my husband has never asked to take a picture of me/me with kids, etc. I have to ask him. 2 months ago I was looking for a photo in his phone. I found HUNDREDS of me that he has been taking forever without me knowing. Me in my happiest moments. Me with our babies. 15 years and this felt like our first date.
#4
[After loss of my fiancé], I was going through his phone and he had so many pictures of me just in our daily life. I had no idea he ever took those, I could see me through his lens…it deeply changed me. I miss him so much.
#5
I had a friend who was texting her [late brother] for 2 years straight after. Just chatting without a response. It made me realize how much she was truly grieving.
#6
My dad and step mom’s texts during my high school graduation about how embarrassed they were I didn’t graduate with honors and comparing me to other students…. Grabbed my diploma and dipped. no contact with them 7 years later✌🏻
#7
My oldest daughter screenshot a group text b/w my wife and 3 daughters talking about me. My wife was planning a random special dinner for me and she was explaining how much I do for this family and how much she relies on me and what I mean to her. After 31 years of marriage, I didn’t think I could love her more…I was wrong.
#8
I saved all the photos from [my late mother's] phone. She had saved SO MANY positive quotes and had taken sweet selfies of herself through her cancer treatments. The week before she left a note in her notes app for me knowing I’d find it telling me how special I was.
#9
My bf has a reminder on his phone set for everyday to do Duolingo and learn Vietnamese for me.
#10
My dad’s background on his phone is a picture of me & my sister. My sister is biological his & I’m not biologically his but he raised me💞
#11
My sister's text saying “she’s so selfish couldn’t even make it to mom's funeral” uhm I had just given birth & was in the ICU fighting for my life & almost joined our mom😑but I’m selfish.
#12
And hour after I gave birth, a notification came up on his phone from a random number. I clicked on it and it pulled up multiple flirty messages, including I love you. He had been texting this girl the entire time I was in labor... yeah I’ll never forget that.
#13
I found out [my late dad] saved EVERY photo of me and my kids. When he said we were his world he really meant it.
#14
Got[my late dad's] phone and he had a message typed out to me he never sent, it said "Woke up thinking about you. I love you."
#15
Ex husband talking to his best friend about how he couldn’t wait to go to a hooters like establishment to see a decent body. I’d just given birth to this 3rd child. 🙃
#16
A video of my ex husband, his best friend, and best friends wife “together” on a day I was at home with our one week old baby.
#17
My husband.s boss was sitting in front of me and she was texting her daughter's boyfriend “I love you so much handsome baby” while her daughter was sitting across the table from her WITH THE GUY AND HE WAS LOOKING DOWN, SMILING AT HIS PHONE.
#18
I saw [my late dad] spent every Tuesday sending encouraging messages to people on FB. “I always knew you would be a big success.” And he had 3 favorites in his contacts - my siblings and me.
#19
All [my late dad's] passwords were of my brother, my mom or me. Like "bestdayoflife030981".
#20
I went through my moms phone & my sister went through my dads phone & we found out they were both cheating on each other after 25 years together 🤦🏼♀️They divorced after.
#21
Saw my mom liking and posting troll comments in support of ICE on a private FB group that she must have forgot that she added me to… I’m Mexican & married into a Mexican family as well.
#22
A girl I was friends with was getting anonymously bullied on tumblr and i felt so bad for her, but i ended up seeing her send herself the anon hateful messages during a movie.
#24
Searched my name in their messages expecting to find cute stuff said about me instead I found out he hooked up with another girl on my birthday because I was sick with a fever.
#25
My grandpa was texting my grandma “I miss you Mima” 🥺🥺🥺🥺 he was visiting me and my grandma has dementia and stayed with my aunty for the weekend, and he reminds her daily so she doesn’t forget him.
#26
Saw his to do list ✅: buy her flowers , go for a walk to a nearby lake , dinner at her fav restaurant, remind her she means everything to me …
#27
We were watching his Spotify wrapped together and his most listened podcast was Joe Rogan… he said he listened to it to fall asleep but I didn’t believe him.
#28
Was playing games on my adoptive moms phone and my adoptive dad texted her and asked if they could “reconsider this adoption thing.”
#30
My stepmom told my dad I was a devil spawn bc she would lie to him about “behaviors” so she got his attention and I didn’t. I was 10. I never spoke, made noise in the house, was afraid to even eat, and complied with every command because I was scared to get in trouble. I didn’t deserve that and it’ll forever hurt me deeply.
#32
My entire perspective of someone changes when I see their Lock Screen set to a selfie of themselves.
#33
A positive one: my bf set a widget to be a slideshow of pics of me and makes me send every selfie I take so their Lock Screen and Home Screen can be updated regularly😭🥰
#35
The elderly receptionist at the assisted living center I worked at had Edward Cullen as her Lock Screen. Later saw her Facebook in my recommended and he was a picture of her and him photoshopped.
#37
My ex texting an old fling that he wanted to take our kid away from me so she could be their mom.
#38
My name in his phone is amore❤️and his lock screen is the worst picture of me known to man.
#39
The guy I was exclusively dating wished Carrie June a happy Valentine’s Day while doing nothing for me for Valentine’s Day 😭😭😂😂 I was actually more embarrassed for him.
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