Other My photos showing up on someone elses phone

[lowfreq]

this is very bizarre.

Someone just showed me some photos from my phone or iCloud account that have somehow ended up on her phone. One was a screenshot of a conversation I was having with another girl. IT was obvious it was a screenshot taken off iMessage from an iMac I have in a dining room as I could see reflections off the opposite wall.

That particular conversation took place well over a year ago and I have no memory of taking that photo, and can't think of why I would have taken it but there it is.

How on earth could my photos be showing up on that persons phone?

 

[ericwn]

To clarify: you have screenshots of conversations in your Photos app?

And if I may add: what the hell did the other person say as you surely asked them where they have it from, right?

 

[Haribokart]

this is very bizarre.

Someone just showed me some photos from my phone or iCloud account that have somehow ended up on her phone. One was a screenshot of a conversation I was having with another girl. IT was obvious it was a screenshot taken off iMessage from an iMac I have in a dining room as I could see reflections off the opposite wall.

That particular conversation took place well over a year ago and I have no memory of taking that photo, and can't think of why I would have taken it but there it is.

How on earth could my photos be showing up on that persons phone?

A screenshot wouldn't have any reflections, you're going to need to give more detail.

 

[lowfreq]

A screenshot wouldn't have any reflections, you're going to need to give more detail.

Sorry, didn't mean screenshot.

It looks like a photo from the monitor of my iMac I have in my dining room as you can see photos I have hanging on the wall in the background. I've posted it below my response. Its obviously a photo from my iMac.


This photo and some other, random photos showed up in this iMessage chat between myself and another person. She hasn't shown me what the other photos are yet, but when I go into the iMessage chat and look there are many random photos that I now believe to be from Facebook. I certainly didn't share them with her. All are just random photos that people on my friends list posted.

I have no idea how they got there except last week there was an announcement on a local FB page about a place closing down due to covid, I tried copying that text and sending it via the iMessage app to this person but maybe it grabbed a bunch of other stuff from me FB page ?

Whats bizzarre is that the photo below does not show up in the iMessage chat for me, but it somehow shows up on her end.

 

[maerz001]

Posting something you are not even sure of from fb in iMessage.
99% the problem sits in front of the display

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

Posting something you are not even sure of from fb in iMessage.
99% the problem sits in front of the display

How is this helpful in the slightest? Do better.

I was actually notified of something similar at work. An employee had a huge amount of her personal photos show up on an iPad we use to track COVID testing. What's strange is the iPad is used with MDM and iCloud traffic is blocked through the management profile so I'm completely baffled how this could have happened.

 

[Madmic23]

I can think of two things:
1) Your iCloud account is signed in on that persons device. On your phone, go to Settings, iCloud, and look at the list of all of the places that you're signed in. If you notice a device you don't use, tap on it and then "Remove from account"

2) Your sharing an iCloud folder with this person and you've accidently put files in the shared folder. Go to the Files app on your phone, click on iCloud and see if you have any folders with a shared icon on them.

As for the mystery photo of your screen, someone had to have taken that photo. You might find some clues by looking in the meta data of the original file if you have access to it.

Hope this helps.

 

[CosminM]

this is very bizarre.

Someone just showed me some photos from my phone or iCloud account that have somehow ended up on her phone. One was a screenshot of a conversation I was having with another girl. IT was obvious it was a screenshot taken off iMessage from an iMac I have in a dining room as I could see reflections off the opposite wall.

That particular conversation took place well over a year ago and I have no memory of taking that photo, and can't think of why I would have taken it but there it is.

How on earth could my photos be showing up on that persons phone?

you also have this photo on your phone ? this is not a screenshot... The other person is a ex?

 

[DeepIn2U]

this is very bizarre.

Someone just showed me some photos from my phone or iCloud account that have somehow ended up on her phone. One was a screenshot of a conversation I was having with another girl. IT was obvious it was a screenshot taken off iMessage from an iMac I have in a dining room as I could see reflections off the opposite wall.

That particular conversation took place well over a year ago and I have no memory of taking that photo, and can't think of why I would have taken it but there it is.

How on earth could my photos be showing up on that persons phone?

#3 ... you may have shared your album or family sharing enabled and this person listed as a family member to see photos in shared album. Any photos placed therein is available for all members to see.

If the conversation that is screenshot is a convo from the ex ... read the message therein - is that the wording you'd use in any situation to that person in the convo? I ask this because if no content was shared, ablums not shared and if you didn't actually send the pic to that person ... then read the message and if the wording is not like you ... you've been had.