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Jordan Collins

‘I don’t want this anymore’: Dad gifts daughter his old iPhone. Then she finds the gross apps he had on it

Money has been tight lately so there’s nothing wrong with gifting your loved ones with a little secondhand present. However, if you’re going to give them a phone make sure you wipe it beforehand. One woman on TikTok found out some things she’d rather not know about her father after he gave her his old phone without deleting the apps he had installed and it’s enough to scar anybody.

A woman named Phoebe shared her Christmas haul from her father on TikTok. She received a rather generous gift in the form of an iPhone 16 Pro Max which had been her dad’s old phone. Even secondhand, that’s a pretty nice present, there was just one problem, he forgot to uninstall the apps he had downloaded onto his phone. What would have been a great Christmas gift all of a sudden turned into one of the worst presents we’ve seen somebody receive this year.

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