My bf is mad at me

Last night, I fell asleep on the couch. I woke up and went upstairs to our bedroom.

My bf was in the bathroom and I saw his phone on the bed. He NEVER goes anywhere without his phone. He never leaves his phone lying around.

I saw a notification come up so I decided to look at it. I opened his phone up and just looked at who he has been texting ( I didn’t actually read the messages) and then I looked at his pictures.

As I was looking at his pictures, he opened the bedroom door and I jumped. A little.

He saw that I was on his phone and he got very mad at me. He called me “sneaky” and said that he doesn’t like that I don’t trust him.

I never said that I don’t trust him. As his girlfriend, I just feel like I should be able to play with his phone. He can look at mine if he wants.

One time, he asked if he could look thru my phone. And I said “yes sure” and I handed him my phone. Then I said “can I see your phone too?” And he said “never mind. We don’t need to look thru each others phone. That’s unhealthy”. But he only felt that way because I asked to see his.

Btw, it’s not that I want to be controlling and go thru his phone all the time. I’ve been in relationships before where we knew each others codes, answered each others phones, looked at each others photos. But my current bf is private with his phone.

What do you ladies think?? Am I in the wrong for looking at his phone ? I understand maybe I should have asked him to see it. Do you think it’s strange he gets so upset about me seeing it ?

He’s very mad at me right now. 😞

Also, this is only the second time I’ve seen

His phone. The first time was months ago… I only went to his pictures app and looked at pictures. I scrolled up and saw that he kept old nudes that women have sent him before we started dating. That really upset me. He told me he deleted them and after a while we were fine again. And I guess, I’m a way, I went to his photos to see if there was anymore.