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DH has messed with my phone

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blondeseaside · 16/10/2026 08:31

Small thing really, but it's given me the rage. For some reason, DH has taken it upon himself to rearrange all the Apps on my phone. He says to make them in alphabetic order, although only about half are now in alphabetic order.

Previously I knew where to find them all, for eg. Vinted was always on page 3, top left, Whatsapp and Messenger were always on page 2. I now can't find anything easily, and I know it's a first world problem, but I'm feeling enraged that he would mess with my stuff like this!

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Theunamedcat · 16/10/2026 17:22

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Balloonhearts · 16/10/2026 17:26

blondeseaside · 16/10/2026 08:34

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to change it back. It's actually driving me mad. Mad that I can't find anything, but also mad that he feels this is an ok thing to do. I use my phone for my self employed job too.

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Just press and hold your finger on an icon and drag it to where you want it.

1percentbatterylife · 16/10/2026 17:33

I would factory reset his phone for this.

TheGentleHelper · 16/10/2026 17:46

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HauntingBillCrouse · 16/10/2026 19:11

Ved · 16/10/2026 09:12

YANBU. What on earth is he doing in your phone anyway? Put a password on it!

I don't let my DH anywhere NEAR my devices. He has form for fucking shit up.. He thinks he's a tech wizard and an IT specialist, because he knows how to uninstall and reinstall apps and operating systems... But I have lost count of the amount of times he has fucked up his own computer, lost all his photos, lost all his files, and had the whole thing crash and burn. This never happens to mine. It's because he's always messing about, and installing different operating systems, and downloading crap, and using VPNs....

He is always complaining that his phone is sluggish too, and keeps stalling, and switching off randomly etc etc, but it's because he is always pissing about with it, and experimenting. Problem is, he's not as clever as he thinks he is with IT and tech, and he keeps breaking stuff/messing it up. I've had the same smartphone since 2019 (the first one I ever had.) We got them at the same time. He is on his 4th one. In 7 years.

When we shared a computer - pre 2010 - I had all of my photos and files and music and documents on it, and he had his, and he fucked up the computer several times, by messing about and experimenting... Including one time when I had spent 8 hours (over 2 days) organising and sorting all my stuff, and he messed up, and had to put the computer back to a restore point from 2 days previously. Undoing everything I had done. He also lost my files a couple of times, and I lost everything. I was in tears... All my documents and music and photos, all gone. (Luckily, my favourite photos were on Facebook, but I lost 90% of my photos., and all the music, and all the documents..)

Once I got my own computer (laptop) in 2010, I never allowed him near it. And I have always been fine, never lost anything, never broke my laptop. HE keeps losing stuff off his, and breaking it, and he can never seem to fathom why. It's like some kind of mental block.

As I said, I never EVER let him near anything of mine, and have my devices locked out with passwords.

I'd think you were married to my son, but he is only 19! 😂 Everyday he shouts at his laptop, his phone, his games console. They freeze, they don't load stuff, they do random shit. Yes, because he's modded them and put all kinds of shit on them. He won't hear it though. 🙄 He's had so many different phones. Got a new one, it was too slow, didn't work. So he decided to use his brothers old phone, and gave his new phone to his other brother. New phone worked fine, old phone, which worked fine previously then started being awkward. The common denominator there? 🤔 None of us will let him near our stuff. He went on my laptop ONCE and then the keyboard didn't work!

No one touches my phone, or my tablet. No one knows my pass code, not even my DP. I'm not hiding anything, just don't want stuff interfered with (not that I think my DP would)

I hope you can fix your phone OP

TheGentleHelper · 18/10/2026 17:52

TheGentleHelper · 16/10/2026 17:46

Get well soon.

I cannot believe they deleted her comment. Snowflakes these admin.

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