Sneaky new iPhone tactic people are using to hide their infidelity… and foolproof ways to catch cheaters red-handed

With new technology and apps emerging every day, it’s getting easier for cheaters to hide their shady antics from their partners.

Whether it’s creating a hidden folder of pictures in their phone or stripping photos of metadata to hide their location, there are many methods by which cheaters can go undetected.

But according to acclaimed relationship investigator Susan Trombetti, there is a particularly sneaky tactic on the rise: the notes app.

In her career, Trombetti spent years hunting down credit fraudsters. She craved the thrill of sniffing out the lies, admitting that she ‘loved catching people and figuring it out.’

But she later decided to shift her focus to uncover cheating partners, building a fearsome reputation as a ‘relationship investigator with experience in tracking, data analysis and lying detection techniques.’

She has now seen firsthand just how far people will go in order to hide their wicked ways.

And, now, very little shocks her.

Trombetti exclusively told the Daily Mail about the latest devious strategy cheaters are using to talk to their secret lovers – and revealed the methods she uses to catch them red-handed.

Trombetti told the Daily Mail conversations are happening in the iPhone notes app.

She explained that instead of talking over text message or social media DM, cheaters turn to the collaboration feature on the notes app because many suspecting partners don’t think to check there.

According to Apple’s website, ‘You can invite people to collaborate in real time on a note or on a folder of notes in iCloud, and everyone will see the latest changes.’ 

‘People are using that to pass messages back and forth,’ Trombetti explained. ‘People are using that to cheat.’

She pointed to General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA, who resigned after being caught having an affair with author Paula Broadwell in 2012.

‘He and this woman put drafts in an email account because no one thought to look at that, but that’s how he was eventually caught cheating,’ Trombetti said.

So how do you catch a dishonest partner?

Well, Trombetti has some go-to tricks for her clients.

First, she said every photo taken on an iPhone should have the location where it was captured attached to it – unless it was stripped of its metadata.

All you have to do is swipe up on the image or tap the information button. If the metadata is attached, a map displaying the location along with address details will appear below the photo.

She also explained that accessing someone’s recently deleted text messages is super simple. On an iPhone, you just have to open the messages app, tap edit in the top left corner and select ‘show recently deleted.’

Additionally, Trombetti suggested looking at the screen time breakdown present in the settings of your partner’s phone. This, she said, will show which apps they were using at what time – so you can check for any suspicious activity at odd hours.

She also recommended using the app Spokeo, a search engine that performs reverse searches to find all linked social media profiles to an email.

Another tactic that Trombetti has used to catch unfaithful partners is the Live Listen feature on Apple’s AirPods.

‘With Live Listen, your iPhone or iPad can act like a microphone that sends sound to your AirPods or Beats,’ Apple’s website reads.

‘Live Listen can help you hear a conversation in a noisy area or even hear someone speaking across the room.’

Trombetti explained that if you put your Bluetooth headphones in, you can use Live Listen on your phone, leaving the device in the same room as your partner. You’ll be able to hear what they’re saying, even from another area of the home.

Just make sure your device is within Bluetooth distance, she warned. 

The expert also explained that you can look back at everywhere your partner has been by accessing their ‘timeline’ if they use Google Maps.

‘Go to the Google Maps app [on their phone], select their profile photo and select timeline,’ Trombetti said. ‘The phone location history must be on.

‘If they are turning it off and there are gaps, that’s suspicious as well. It goes back years and works on Apple and Android devices.’

In terms of what to look out for, she suggested ‘numerous visits to unfamiliar places and that sort of thing.’ 

‘You can also go to Gmail app on their phone, select manage your Google account, select data and privacy and look at YouTube history there as well,’ she added.

Lastly, Trombetti shared a technique she claimed has been used by the FBI.

She explained that numerous programs on Windows computers create what’s known as ‘temp files’ that people often forget to delete when trying to hide something from their partner.

‘A temporary file is a file created by a computer program to store data temporarily while the program is running,’ technology company Lenovo previously reported.

‘When you open a software application, it may create temporary files in order to function properly. For example, when you’re working on a document and hit “save,” your word processor might first create a temporary file to save your work in progress before saving the final version of the document.’

Trombetti said you can access these files to ‘restore’ a computer even after it’s been wiped.

‘You can forensically restore a computer [using these temp files],’ she explained. ‘It’s an FBI technique, it’s not that hard.’

According to Lenovo, the location of temporary files depends on your operating system and how your computer is configured. 

‘In general, though, most operating systems have a designated folder where programs can store their temporary files,’ the company added.

‘On Windows machines, this folder is typically located at C:UsersUsernameAppDataLocalTemp (replace “Username” with your own username).’