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Do you know your husband's passcode?

393 replies

hitmewithyourbestshot21 · 27/12/2023 22:43

Just that, how many of you know your husbands/partners passcode for their phone?

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WashItTomorrow · 28/12/2023 20:14

Yes, we use each other’s phones quite often.

Passingthethyme · 28/12/2023 20:14

Yes and he knows mine. We don't go through each other's phones as such, more if we want to look up something and the other phone is closer or if we want to look at pictures the other has taken. Weirdly, I wouldn't be thrilled if he went through my phone as I do alot of texting and messaging to my friend on there and it would feel like someone reading my diary almost.

mogsrus · 28/12/2023 20:15

I know his he knows mine. Nothing to hide

Polis · 28/12/2023 20:16

We know each other’s. We use each other’s phones occasionally.

Most recently I used his to order a load of stuff from Screwfix while he was driving. We live exciting lives.

Flickersy · 28/12/2023 20:18

Yes, because he's got dyscalculia and he uses the same passcode for all his devices.

He doesn't know mine because I'm the opposite, and I use longer numbers and have a different number for each thing, all of which I keep in my head. I've told him the numbers, he just can't remember them.

Groovee · 28/12/2023 20:18

Yes and he and our children know my one.

curtaintwitcher78 · 28/12/2023 20:20

He told me it but I've forgotten. I might be able to get it in a few tries if he was dead and I needed his contacts.

Edwardandtubbs · 28/12/2023 20:20

Yes mainly cos he’s lazy and asks me to do banking etc for him (he’s self employed). He’s also terrible at remembering stuff so he has the same code or password for absolutely everything and could never change it as he’d forget it. Like others, we use each others phones a lot to google stuff, put music on, sometimes even message friends/family.

I also open his post - cos he can’t be arsed!

He’d be shit at having an affair.

conkee · 28/12/2023 20:27

Yes. We know each others and have Face ID set up as well. I never go on it though as it’s extremely disorganised. It’s chaos.

GordoStevensMustache · 28/12/2023 20:30

Goodlard · 28/12/2023 19:17

@GordoStevensMustache no I don't to to prove anything, I'm in a great respectful relationship, with wonderful trust over the part 38 years! What do you think is weird?

That you're trying to justify your relationship to randoms on the Internet? That's quite weird

googledidnthelp · 28/12/2023 20:32

Yes we have the same one

Yert · 28/12/2023 20:34

No. Not interested.

Goodlard · 28/12/2023 20:43

@GordoStevensMustache it's a discussion forum, you share different points of view?

Is that also weird?

Walker1178 · 28/12/2023 20:46

Yes, we both know each others but it’s a convenience rather than a trust thing. I’d never snoop through his phone and I’m pretty sure he has no interest in what’s on mine. We’ve only ever used passwords to unlock each others phones where we’re both there and are trying to do something for the other

Milkand2sugarsplease · 28/12/2023 20:48

We know each other's and my 11yo knows them too from when he would borrow our phones to play a game or watch YouTube etc.

DH uses mine more then I use his because we use mine to play a couple of games most nights whereas I rarely need to touch his - things like reading a message if he's driving or if we use his for sat nav etc.

I do think, for those that don't know it, you'd be wise having an "important things" file for if the worst should happen. We lost my mum suddenly and I obviously didn't know any of her logins for anything and it was bloody hard work at what was already a horrid time.

TheWeatherOutsideIs · 28/12/2023 20:49

I mean he’s told me it a million times but I can’t remember it, so no lol

Mrsgreen100 · 28/12/2023 20:59

Wish I had , would of saved me wasted years and thousands of pounds,plus a huge bill from PI and months spent with the police
(same goes for passwords for laptops etc)
now I would be suspicious of any partner who always had their phone in silent for years
and always had it turned face down or with them
rooky mistake not just a weird habit, it’s the behaviour of a liar and a cheat

Pushkinini · 28/12/2023 21:10

Yes. Don't think he knows mine though, although if he asked, I'd tell him.

NorthernSpirit · 28/12/2023 21:17

He’s told me a few times (when I’m out of charge on my phone and have asked to use his) but I can’t remember it.

I trust him, so have no reason to know it and go through his phone.

Tohaveandtohold · 28/12/2023 21:59

Yes and he knows mine. We don’t snoop in each others phones anyway because there’s nothing to hide and no reason to.
Even the 5 year old knows both passcodes since she was about 3.

Ohnotyoutoo · 28/12/2023 22:00

I know his passcode but only because he locked himself out of his iPhone and had to do a factory reset. I made him tell me it so that wouldn't happen again!

He knows mine because why not

mydogisthebest · 28/12/2023 22:18

GordoStevensMustache · 28/12/2023 18:30

Oh god this is even worse. Why would you open anyone's post but your own! I think some of you are under the impression that if you're in a relationship with someone you somehow, I don't know, "become" them? Own them?! It's so creepy! So many fucked up relationships on this thread 🙈

We don't have a fucked up relationship thank you very much. Very happily married for over 40 years.

I am at home most days and DH is out at work. If he comes homes and there is unopened post for him he almost always asks why I didn't open it.

I would not open something like a birthday card but no reason not to open other things.

Often they are just bills which, for some unknown reason, are addressed to him rather than both of us. As I sort out the bills from our joint account (you probably have a problem with this too) why not open it?

CustardySergeant · 28/12/2023 22:22

As far as I know he hasn't got a passcode, but if he has, I don't know it. I haven't even got a mobile phone.

BarbaraWoodlouse1 · 29/12/2023 06:59

Yep. Us and kids all have the same one

mogsrus · 29/12/2023 08:09

All our passwords & codes have been stored away so as & when the time comes for her to sort everything out, DC knows exactly where to look to get on with the job.