With the ubiquity of mobile devices, it makes sense that mobile devices themselves would be key in communications between a cheating spouse or partner. Technology has created mobile devices that are essentially gateways to information (internet) and communication (email, social media, text messages, etc.). iPhones in particular are used by many consumers as their smartphone of choice. iPhones are essentially handheld computers, similar to a laptop or PC. As with all computers, digital evidence of infidelity is recorded and stored. To keep the affair a secret, this digital evidence must be hidden from the couple.

Knowing the ways an affair can be hidden can be key to uncovering the affair and catching the cheater red-handed. If the cheater has an iPhone, here are 25 ways the cheater can try to hide evidence of the affair from her:

1. Create a new email account that is only used to communicate with your lover.

2. Check Your Email Communications With Your Lover Through Webmail Not iPhone Email

3. Does not save or make your iPhone remember your password or email address/login name for your communications with your lover.

4. Removed links or “bookmarks” to any webmail page used to communicate with your lover.

5. Changing your wireless phone bill to “paper billing” to hide communications with your lover.

6. Use a third-party text/SMS app so the text won’t show up on your phone bill or online details.

7. Save lover’s name as fake name and gender, so calls to/from that person are less suspicious.

8. Use a third-party dialer like Skype or Google Voice to make and receive phone calls so they don’t show up on your phone bill or online usage details.

9. If you use iPhone email to send/receive emails, you can go to Settings -> Mail -> Account to enable mail for your lover when you want to check, then disable mail when you are done so that the account will not be show. in your mail account list or “All inboxes”, but you will still keep your settings and emails.

10. Disable location services to make it harder to be tracked. With location services enabled, certain websites and apps can determine your location, and photos you take on your iPhone will have GPS coordinate information embedded in them, which can show that you’re not where they said you were.

11. Clear your map/GPS history and address history for the locations you go to or meet with your lover.

12. Close all web page tabs for your lover related websites as soon as you are done with the page.

13. Clear your internet history and cache of visited websites for your lover.

14. Clear your call history for calls made to and from your lover, as well as calls made to hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, yacht charters, etc.

15. Clear your text/SMS history with your lover. Whether your lover is best friends with your spouse or someone else, she is expected to have casual contact with iPhone, allowing you to delete specific text messages selectively.

16. He uses his iPhone calendar to set up fake work-related or non-suspicious dates or meetings in order to have an alibi to meet his lover

17. Use one of the many iPhone apps like “Fake Caller” to simulate an incoming call from your boss or co-worker where you need to meet in the same place as your lover.

18. Having your passcode set up on your iPhone so that if it falls into the wrong hands, your phone is locked and your information is more secure.

19. Having your passcode set to automatically lock after a specific amount of time.

20. Have your passcode’s “Clear Data” feature enabled, which will erase the data on your iPhone if the wrong passcode is entered 10 times in a row.

21. If you sync your iPhone with your computer or use iTunes to transfer music to your iPhone, you can encrypt the iPhone backups that iTunes creates.

22. You can turn off automatic preview of text messages, otherwise inappropriate message content or images may appear at the top of your passcode screen.

23. Use iPhone apps like TigerText to delete texts

24. Buy a new phone to secretly communicate with your lover

25. They use a fake password app. The cheater tells the couple the “fake” access code which, when entered, removes all incriminating text and other information.

Regardless of whether the device is a laptop, PC, Mac, or iPhone, there is always digital evidence to hide if you are having an affair. If you know what to look for, you can often find evidence of an affair yourself. If you need to dig deeper to find the evidence, such as recover deleted text or images or other data, then you will need a computer forensics expert.