Everyone has a fitness app of some sort nowadays – even if it’s long forgotten about and unused on your phone.
If, however, you’re up to no good then you may want to check exactly what your fitness apps are recording – and who they’re sharing information with.
One man found out the hard way when his wife caught him cheating using the running app Strava, which records maps of people’s runs.
TikToker Meg C. McGee, from Savannah, Georgia, America shared with the world on the social media platform how her “little weasel” husband’s sneaky behaviour finally caught up with him.
She explained: “I figured out my ex husband was cheating on me through Strava.”
Meg explained that the “important thing to note about Strava is that it shares your map with people” and that her husband – a military man – and her followed each other on the fitness platform.
She said: “When he first came home from deployment he wasn’t really going into work himself a lot so there were a lot of days where he would go on runs on his own that I would stay home and I would work at home.
“Looking back I even remember there being times where I offered to go on runs with him and he would make up some excuse about how… he was gonna run too far for me, I wouldn’t be able to keep up. Whatever.”
But when he called her and told them they needed a break there were “red flags” and Meg said she quickly turned into an “FBI like detective.”
Although Meg says she got “bits and pieces of information from different sources” it wasn’t until she checked his Strava maps that things started to become crystal clear.
She said: “And the cherry on top ended up being looking at his Strava running maps.”
“What I ended up finding … was that he would start his run at our house and he would end it at her house,” said Meg.
Meg, whose video has now been watched 1.8million times, had lots of support in the comment section under her video – with many saying that they too had made similar discoveries on apps.
One said: “I found out my ex cheated on me when the Airbnb host left a review about how ‘he and Martha’ were such great guests. My name isn’t Martha.”
Another TikTok user said: “I found out from Spotify when he made a collaborative playlist with his mistress on our Spotify account.”
“I found out through Netflix because someone was bingeing Gossip Girl,” added another burned TikTok user.
