One-third admit to spying on their partner’s phone

One-third of Irish people check their partners’ smartphones for photos, videos, suspicious dialled numbers, and texts.

One-third admit to spying on their partner’s phone

According to a survey by Meteor, we are a suspicious bunch, with half of the women and 40% of men surveyed admitting to having taken a sneak peak at someone else’s phone while that person was out of the room.

Over one-third admitted to checking their partner’s phone for suspicious content like photos, videos, and texts. Women were far more suspicious in this regard, with 40% admitting they had done such snooping compared with just 24% of men.

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