This Woman Found A Lost iPhone And What She Found On It Left Her Horrified

Twitter user afronomics realized just how much information we keep on our phones when she found a lost iPhone and decided to see if she could find its owner.

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Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain and Twitter / afronomics
Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain and Twitter / afronomics
Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain and Twitter / afronomics

Have you ever thought about just how much information you keep in your phone? Your name, your parents’ names and contact information, photos of you and the people close to you. Not to mention most people have access to their social media, email and credit card numbers within the device. It’s all just a tap away.

Twitter user afronomics realized this when she found a lost iPhone and decided to see what she could find out about its owner. All she wanted was to figure out how to return the phone, but what she found was eye opening.

https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833784254848970756

It started out normal enough.

https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833779390492372992

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But it didn’t take long for her to feel weird about what she had found out about the iPhone’s owner.

https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833780255089364992

https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833780462967455749

She decided to use her experience to warn others about what information they put into their phones.

https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833781270832373765

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She also gave some advice to other iPhone users so they won’t have to worry about being in a similar situation.

https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833783023644639232

https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833783229563932672

People were understandably grateful for the tip.

https://twitter.com/YoungCocoButta/status/833911043537637377

Others worried about how easily Apple let strangers retrieve their information without their knowledge.

https://twitter.com/_mygrassisblue_/status/833903778457858048

https://twitter.com/SZMatheson/status/834073981850378240

Afronomics’s experience is a lesson to us all: be careful about what information you keep in your phone, and always check your privacy settings. Thought Catalog Logo Mark