‘1, 2, 3 in the morning’: Denver woman’s police officer husband tells her he works nights alone. Then she looks at his Apple Watch

A Denver, Colo., woman sees her husband’s Apple Watch in the bedroom and decides to check the texts. She finds hundreds of messages from an unsaved number, which leads her to question what he’s really doing during his shifts as a police officer.

In a video with over 743,000 views, TikToker Kylie Bishopp (@kyliebishopp) says she met her now-ex-husband in 2018, during her freshman year of college. They got engaged shortly after he graduated and she dropped out in 2020. They married the following year.

“It all happened pretty quickly,” she says.

The couple lived in Oahu, Hawaii, for six months before moving to Denver to be close to Bishopp’s parents and for her husband to work as a police officer. His shifts usually fell on Friday through Monday, and he told her he didn’t ride with other co-workers on his Sunday and Monday shifts.

She had no reason to believe he wasn’t telling the truth. Then, she sees his Apple Watch charging in their bedroom while he plays video games.

What did she find on his Apple Watch?

“Never before have I gone through his phone, gone through his watch,” she says. “But for whatever reason, this night I just could not shake the feeling that I just needed to look at his watch.”

She opens up iMessage and sees texts from an unsaved number. Bishopp opens the thread and sees her husband and the unknown receiver deciding who will pick up the police vehicle during his Sunday shifts.

“Weird. Those came through on days he said he was riding by himself,” she says. “Some of these texts here at 1, 2, 3 in the morning.”

Bishopp decides to confront her husband and asks if he actually rides alone on Sunday. He insists he’s telling the truth, and she asks to see his phone.

When she opens his phone, she notices that the messages she found in the Apple Watch aren’t there. She realizes he deleted them from his phone.

“What I guess he didn’t think about was deleting [the messages] from his watch,” she continues.

Bishopp confesses that she already went through his phone and found the messages. She tells him to fess up to who he was talking to.

He shares that he rides with a woman co-worker on Sundays, but deleted the messages fearing that Bishopp would be uncomfortable.

“We obviously then get into a fight. Because I didn’t understand the point of lying to me about it,” she says. “If there is something that you don’t think I’m comfortable with, then why would you hide it from me?”

She says her husband told his co-worker that he couldn’t ride with her anymore because his wife was uncomfortable.

Bishopp continues that the mistrust stemming from the discovery of the messages remained “an issue in the relationship.” The couple attended counseling to try to work through the broken trust. They continued to work on the relationship for two years.

Then, she sees his location at a diner on one of his shifts. He had just stopped responding to her messages, raising a red flag for Bishopp.

Did they decide to end the relationship?

In a follow-up video, Bishopp says she sent her ex-husband a text questioning if the relationship was broken beyond repair due to the mistrust. His response surprised her.

“If our cards are on the table, I’ve been miserable for a long time, too,” he tells her. He suggests that the couple should break it off.

The couple had recently purchased a house, which he continued to live in and pay for while she lived with her parents.

While Bishopp had hoped the couple could work it out, she says that she was served divorce papers at her parents’ home, and her ex remained insistent on ending the relationship.

She shares that three weeks after their separation, his co-worker moved in with him into the house they previously shared.

“I don’t know about you, but I don’t move in with someone after three weeks of dating,” she remarks. “So, that solidified to me that he had been having an affair.”

A month after the divorce was finalized, she says that she found the woman’s Facebook profile. She sees a pregnancy announcement.

“He is apparently now married with a baby on the way with this co-worker that I had nothing to worry about,” she says in a short third video.

Have other women discovered affairs on Apple Watches?

Apple Watches can sync up with an iPhone to receive text messages. But they don’t automatically delete when erased from the phone. iPhone users can adjust their Apple Watch message settings to delete them after 30 days, according to Apple’s website.

On Reddit, other women say that this loophole helped them discover their partners’ affairs.

“Intuition led me to check his Apple Watch when he forgot it at home. It was a sh– birthday for me,” a commenter on the r/SupportForBetrayed subreddit says.

@kyliebishopp Who tf did I marry part 1 &lt3 **for legal purposes this is all alleged** #divorce #breakup #denver #police #exposed ♬ original sound – kyliebishopp

A second shares on r/Relationship_Advice, “It was like something inside me told me to go look at it. I went through his messages and within seconds, I found him talking to a girl telling her he wanted her to meet him how beautiful she was.”

Another offers words of encouragement to others in similar situations, commenting on r/Apple, “As someone who experienced something like this (which ended my marriage), I can absolutely assure you that things will get better and that you’re better off knowing than living in the dark.”

The Mary Sue reached out to Bishopp via TikTok direct message and to Apple via email for further comment.

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