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Male friend stole my phone to look at my nudes

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LostStars39 · 01/10/2025 21:46

It’s a bit of a weird one and something I never expected would happen, please bear with as it’s so long but I don’t want to leave anything out.

I threw a party last week and I had a few friends over including me and DPs couple friend Kate and Tom (names changed obviously)
myself and DP have been really good friends with Kate and Tom for years now and all get on really well.

Last Saturday night of the party we were all having a great night, everyone was very drunk and drinks were flowing and we were playing games and just generally having fun. We all had a bit of coke but it wasn’t a massive bender or anything (might be relevant later)

Fast forward to about 2am and it starts winding
down, there are a few other people round who get taxis home but Kate and Tom stay over in our spare room as we’d planned.

I sleep with a Bluetooth eyemask and play music to help me fall asleep, I was quite tired and fell asleep quite quickly. A couple of hours later, around 5am I heard the door of the spare room going and assumed Kate or Tom needed the toilet (the only toilet I have in my house is my en-suite) although the sleep mask is good I’m a light sleeper and still hear most noises.
I try going back to sleep as I don’t hear any other movement. Suddenly my music cuts out and I can hear weird noises and a voice that sounds like myself through the eyemask. I jolt upright in bed feeling completely confused and disorientated. The noises I can hear playing is moaning and sounds like porn but also sounds like myself. DP is fast asleep next to me.
I go to grab my phone on my bedside table which is charging next to me but it’s not there. I was pretty drunk when I came up to bed so check under pillows, under the bed etc and then finally think to check my charger lead, it’s not plugged in.

I turn my lamp on and start walking out my room to try and find out what the hell is going on and Tom is sat outside my door holding my phone in one hand and his in another. I grab my phone back and ask him what the fuck he’s doing with my phone and he looks disoriented and sheepish and just keeps stuttering saying sorry and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He then eventually says he was being a pervert and that he “doesn’t have a boner” I’m really confused so get back into bed while Tom goes to the toilet. While toms in the toilet I wake DP and tell him somethings happened as by this point I’m terrified. Tom comes out the toilet and I pretend to be asleep as I can’t process anything right now. DP and Tom say a couple of words to each other but toms mostly completely out of it.

when Tom goes back to bed I tell DP everything and that I think Tom was watching porn on my phone, I then open my phone to see what it was and turns out Tom has gone into my “hidden photos folder” on iPhone that you need Face ID or passcode for and has been looking through my nudes and videos of myself with sex toys etc I’d sent of myself to DP around 3 years ago when we first got together! I’m absolutely mortified and was nearly sick when I realised. I never go looking in that folder and just save things I wouldn’t want in my main photo album in there. I guess I feel partly to blame as I don’t know why I’d kept the videos but they were saved in a private album!

i felt completely violated and disgusted and the next morning just pretended to be asleep so I didn’t have to see Tom until he went home.

I told DP everything on the night and he’s absolutely disgusted too. Tom never sleeps the night of taking coke so I don’t know if he’d been planning it the whole time he was awake or what. I remembered I’d told him the passcode to my phone that night so he could sort the music on my phone so that’s how he’d gotten into the private album.

I haven’t spoken to Tom since and he hadn’t told Kate, I messaged her the day after explaining everything and she confronted him and kicked him out. He’s now back living with her but staying in the living room, but they also work together and are very codependent. Kate is my best friend and she’s heartbroken but I feel due to codependency she will stay with him.

The 4 of us have lots of gigs, meals, events and a couple of holidays coming up and I just don’t know what to do.

Tom is going to get therapy and has sent an apology card but I still can’t face talking to him.
I don’t really know why I’m posting this but just wanted to get it off my chest.

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Agapornis · 01/10/2025 22:25

Report it to the police. He sounds weirdly well practiced and I wouldn't be surprised if he'd done it before.

And yes he'll have sent these files over Bluetooth.

FrauPaige · 01/10/2025 22:26

@LostStars39 It was foolish to have shared your passcode with a third party but you could not have imagined that he would violate your privacy so seriously whilst staying as a guest in your house.

Despite your sharing of your passcode, his subsequent access for purposes other than operating the music player was unlawful.

I'm afraid that this is a police matter and should be reported. He could possibly face charges under computer misuse, online safety, data protection. If he has indeed made copies via Bluetooth he could also be charged under online safety for intent to share intimate images or for sexual gratification.

These attract painful fines and potentially prison time which I think is appropriate in this instance.

Edited for typo

SparklyGlitterballs · 01/10/2025 22:27

Totally off topic but how weird that the only toilet in your house is the en suite. That means anyone at your party had to go through your bedroom for the loo that night, and anyone staying with you has to go past you in your room if they need a wee during the night.

LostStars39 · 02/10/2025 10:39

SparklyGlitterballs · 01/10/2025 22:27

Totally off topic but how weird that the only toilet in your house is the en suite. That means anyone at your party had to go through your bedroom for the loo that night, and anyone staying with you has to go past you in your room if they need a wee during the night.

Yes unfortunately I’m very aware of how inconvenient it is!

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rainbowunicorn22 · 02/10/2025 13:43

delete these files
change friends
think carefully about your drink and coke use

TonTonMacoute · 02/10/2025 14:44

Do you want to be friends with a self-confessed pervert? Someone who has massively violated your trust for what? For his jollies!?

There are so many boundaries he has crossed in this one incident I'm not sure where you can go from here. I wouldn't want to spend time with this person for a very long time, if ever.

LostStars39 · 02/10/2025 17:07

I don’t want to ever see him again unless there’s some massive explanation but I currently can’t think of anything he could do to explain it?
kate is very much burying her head in the sand and I think she’ll just try and forget it over time. They’re pretty much the only friends I have and it breaks my heart but he’s shown his true colours!

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LostStars39 · 02/10/2025 19:39

TheBeaTgoeson1 · 01/10/2025 22:11

Tldr: summery please.

My friend got drunk and took my phone while I was asleep and accessed my private photo album which needs Face ID or passcode to get into. Earlier in the night I gave him my passcode to sort the music out which was connected by my phone.

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LostStars39 · 03/10/2025 22:07

Bump

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ForZanyAquaViewer · 03/10/2025 22:44

What else would you like us to say?

Blessedbethefruitloopss · 03/10/2025 22:57

Crikey. Contact the police. He was lucid enough to remember/save the code. It was planned. I’d be fairly sure he blue toothed them over as well.

Apricotmuffino · 03/10/2025 23:17

How do you think he knew there were photos/videos in there?

Did anyone else know that could have told him?

Ratafia · 03/10/2025 23:19

I'm struggling to get past a house where the only toilet is in an en suite, to be honest. Does that even conform with building regulations?

Edit: just checked out of curiosity and no, it doesn't. So how come?

LostStars39 · 03/10/2025 23:44

Ratafia · 03/10/2025 23:19

I'm struggling to get past a house where the only toilet is in an en suite, to be honest. Does that even conform with building regulations?

Edit: just checked out of curiosity and no, it doesn't. So how come?

Edited

It’s an old house and a bane of my life. I think there used to be an outside toilet but thanks for your concern

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Guytheskiinstructor · 03/10/2025 23:45

Coke? Ewww.

LostStars39 · 03/10/2025 23:46

Apricotmuffino · 03/10/2025 23:17

How do you think he knew there were photos/videos in there?

Did anyone else know that could have told him?

Well to be honest I didn’t even remember they were in there myself, I don’t actively look in that folder unless I’m saving something in there I’d prefer not to be in my main photos. Maybe he just assumed “hidden album” = things I need to see

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Bumcake · 03/10/2025 23:46

Well there’s not much to be said is there? Your friend is coked up perv who wanted to see your fanny, which he was able to do as you only have one toilet (what?).

If that happened to me he’d have found himself scrolling through 100s of pictures of the cat - good luck wanking to that.

LostStars39 · 03/10/2025 23:47

Blessedbethefruitloopss · 03/10/2025 22:57

Crikey. Contact the police. He was lucid enough to remember/save the code. It was planned. I’d be fairly sure he blue toothed them over as well.

Yes you’re so right actually, he can’t have been that bad to remember the passcode!

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Pallisers · 03/10/2025 23:49

rainbowunicorn22 · 02/10/2025 13:43

delete these files
change friends
think carefully about your drink and coke use

This plus

Call the police on this guy

Also struggling with the idea that someone rented or bought a house where the only toilet was accessed through their bedroom.,

clipboardz · 03/10/2025 23:49

How does one even know someone has a secret folder

Robertplantgoddess · 03/10/2025 23:54

Going against the grain. It is absolutely not great that he did that but a drunken coke filled night and you were so out of it you didn't wake up - your friend who you have already called out took chance at a drug fuelled - here's a chance to nose through a phone- moment - (we all pretend we wouldn't but i kno2 i have looked in bathroom cabinets slightly pissed) combined that with photos he didn't know were on there - found them and cracked one out. All of it non sober and indeed pretty much non functional in a coherent way xx

JFDIYOLO · 04/10/2025 00:09

1 report it to the police

2 stop seeing these godawful people

3 make better life choices

DrowningInSyrup · 04/10/2025 00:26

Bumcake · 03/10/2025 23:46

Well there’s not much to be said is there? Your friend is coked up perv who wanted to see your fanny, which he was able to do as you only have one toilet (what?).

If that happened to me he’d have found himself scrolling through 100s of pictures of the cat - good luck wanking to that.

🤣🤣🤣 he'd have found a way!

WatchingTheDetective · 04/10/2025 00:33

There is absolutely no excuse he can make - nothing at all. He planned this. He has basically assaulted you, in your own home. Your friend is not your friend if she stays with him after that. How low can you get?

He was going to transfer that onto his phone, wasn't he? And then what - send it to others? He's fucking awful.

andfinallyhereweare · 04/10/2025 00:36

Yes police. This is a massive violation.