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Q: Can the iPhone5 be hacked remotely by a hacker?

I work for a technology company and one of our employees shared an incident about her iPhone5 being hacked remotely. The hacker gained access to her device overnight while her phone was unlocked. The hacker watched her baby monitor video feed from the baby monitoring app  (including taking pictures and video from the device), posted about the baby to her FB account, browsed on Safari, including some searches of French books on amazon and Scott Trading sites. When I spoke with the mobile device team, they were not familiar with any iOS security gaps that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of an iPhone, however, the activities on her device suggest that this is possible.

 

I found some articles from 2009 regarding a SMS virus that allowed hackers to gain remote access to a device, however, our mobile device team is certain that this gap would be closed by now.

 

Is anyone familiar with an existing security gap on the iPhone5? What would you recommend would be the next action for her? She is intending to delete her icloud account, change all her passwords and wipe her device.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.1

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 1:23 PM

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Feb 21, 2016 11:57 AM in response to KyleNisbet
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    Feb 21, 2016 11:57 AM in response to KyleNisbet

    It is NOT a hacker.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Feb 21, 2016 1:08 PM in response to KyleNisbet
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    Feb 21, 2016 1:08 PM in response to KyleNisbet

    KyleNisbet wrote:

     

    I think that she could download extra security measures. Also, she should maybe add a password onto her phone. All those would hopefully stop the hacker.

    There are no extra security measures to download. Yes, a password is advisable.

  • by stephenfromhampshire,

    stephenfromhampshire stephenfromhampshire Mar 1, 2016 2:30 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Mar 1, 2016 2:30 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    My daughters iPhone 5C has been hacked through Instagram the instragram account password has been changed and messages are being sent to her friends describing things that could only be had seen through the phones camera. The police are now involved but how do I check if any other apple devices in our family are hacked? Any help appreciated and just to help I am not supper technical.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 1, 2016 4:49 AM in response to stephenfromhampshire
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    Mar 1, 2016 4:49 AM in response to stephenfromhampshire

    stephenfromhampshire wrote:

     

    My daughters iPhone 5C has been hacked through Instagram the instragram account password has been changed and messages are being sent to her friends describing things that could only be had seen through the phones camera. The police are now involved but how do I check if any other apple devices in our family are hacked? Any help appreciated and just to help I am not supper technical.

    The fact that her Instagram account was hacked has nothing to do with her iPhone. Unless someone had physical access to her phone, and jailbroke it, the iPhone was not hacked. If she has pictures on Instagram, people will be able to look at them and describe what shw took pictures of.

     

    You should work with Instagram on account security. Check out some of the many references on how to create complex passcodes and educate your daughter on how to use them. Teach her not to give her account passwords to anyone. Have her put a password on her phone.

     

    As long as no one has had physical access to your phones, they have not been hacked. If someone untrustworthy has had unsupervised access, restore the phones as new, not from back up.

  • by me2on6,

    me2on6 me2on6 Mar 30, 2016 11:58 PM in response to moienappleuser
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    Mar 30, 2016 11:58 PM in response to moienappleuser

    EXACTLY moienappleuser. You're correct. My experience matches. And, actually, I have an iPhone 6. However, in THIS post, I'm going to describe for you the God's honest truth and my experience, with the sole purpose of all of us figuring this out together, with Apple. OK, here goes:

     

    This was happening off & on for maybe a year or two (?)... in retrospect I think even when I had my 5S.  I tried to ignore it as best I could but it got worse and worse. So, for the past 6 months or so, I've had my iPhone 6. The problem continued and got seemingly worse with time (or started wearing on me lol). So I called Apple (a kick-*** company) and they REPLACED my phone. First let me say: I'm a HUGE fan of Apple, and love everything they do and stand for and especially their high standards and history of excellence. In fact, when I write Apple on iphone feedback page (which I do often), they always seems to listen and it always seems to makes a difference. I WOULD share this stuff there too but they have a serious char limit, that this longer message would never make the cut. So here goes a post that's my actual experience.  So, I had ALL those same problems that moienappleuser (and probably 100 others here, but I haven't read all the pages yet) have experiences... BUT THEN... after my BRAND NEW, replaced iPhone 6 (same model) arrived, THE EXACT same behavior started again!!! I swear to God. Very frustrating. When I called initially, and spoke with the rep (who was very nice and pretty knowledgeable), he said (upon asking) that he had indeed seen it before several times, and as I tried to describe it, he sort of kept seeming to talk over me pushing the idea that it might be something between the screen and the circuitry / sensors, aka HARDWARE, specifically, what I found other sides refer to as "the digitizer" when I was researching all this). HOWEVER, from what I'm about to describe next, I STRONGLY DISAGREE. The problem is NOT hardware. And I think you'll agree it's SOFTWARE /SPYWARE ..or worse, cyber you-know-what. Read on if you dare...Now, I don't know if it's one of the "haters/spies" (like korea, china, russia or fbi lol), OR if it's just some jealous gf who intentionally planted something on my phone (they should be included in that crap list), but here's MY experiences (similar to moienappleuser) ....only with a twist. Read on!! The BASIC behavior of the (let's call it) this spyware (hey! that's how it acts!! let's be honest and call a spade a spade) is this (my experience at least): 1. I put the phone down (flat or leaning up against something) and it STARTS SWIPING and TAPPING keys and even dialing and going into folders, and AS IF "studying" (spying), and it looks at very sensitive items. It almost taunts you, but I couldn't actually prove it. SO YOU KNOW WHAT?  Today I tried many experiments to see what the heck is going on!  Actually, for a LONG time, I've felt deep-down that the problem is software, because like moienappleuser stated "junk character and make-sense statements". So...that's what made me start experimenting (in my own stupid way): First, I thought, because of the highly unusual PATTERN of "randomness" (the pattern is that it goes into things and almost like "investigating" or "checking things out"... like simulating human behavior, like too "inquisitive" to be just random and too ANNOYING in its patterns), so I thought definitely NOT hardware! So, figuring SOFTWARE, I started, ONE BY ONE, closing various apps that were open (common ones I use), and all throughout the day (whether it makes sense or not), I'd go into Safari and clear cache and history)---for almost a year now like 20 times a day)...only cuz I don't know better. Of course, MANY times every day I power off my phone and relogin, I logged out of my "less necessary" apps and/or changed passwords and even (me this time) started deleting unnecessary apps.  ETC.  Anyway, so I kept trying to keep "just the minimum" apps I needed open...but it kept happening, so today, I closed even the last one.... but the problem continued.... and I was stumped!  So I was trying to "narrow" down which app might be doing it (I have maybe the typical or around 100 apps in total (just a guess)), and honestly, i couldn't do a "proper" test, where I delete everything and reinstall 1-by-1. I need my apps to survive, for business, etc. OK, NOW CHECK THIS OUT. Today the activity on my phone when I set it down was "crazier" than usual... i mean was so aggressive and out of control, going into apps, dialing, texting etc that EVEN I couldn't IGNORE it. It was like a jealous girlfriend. You ignored her and she got crazier. So, the more I ignored it, the more "crazy" it got (i can't explain it all, but I'll share just THREE things just today that happened): 1. When it wasn't "getting my attention" (terror, lol), it THEN TURNED ON THE FLASHLIGHT (by swiping up and touching the flashlight to drain my battery VERY fast...you can ALWAYS "see" what's happening until ur phone goes auto lock I guess (?)--haven't tested or wouldn't know how to. 2. I could also see it TRYING to go into apps where you have to enter a 4 digit passcode! It tried OVER & OVER & OVER...until I got LOCKED OUT of the app myself!! (delay time)...before it started again! It wasn't like (yeah, I read a little like we all do) "brute force" meaning it didn't look like it was going sequentially or whatever, but it was "persistent". So, lest you think I'm crazy, here's a 3rd and LAST one I'll share with you cuz I'm out of time:3)  during one of it's "mock" or "random" or "junk" characters (true most of the time). READY?  Ok, ... WHILE it was keying in RANDOM junk into a random text, I "randomly ADDED" (I inserted the cursor AS it was typing):  "i love u" BUT I cleverly added (for my own testing) a HEART EMOJI in place of the word "love", so there were 3 chars: i(heart)u.  THEN the spyware/cyberware/whatever  continued its "RANDOM" text entries...but I watched closely studying (intently for patterns lol)....I say "lol" because I was shocked when about 15 seconds later (guestimate), it "WROTE BACK" (within the same string of text still and after lots more normal text characters)... a message that included a LOT of emoji hearts (but a different one!)... so whoever (not whatever...and it's NOT hardware!! DUH!!) is doing this is MALICIOUS. I wish I had recorded the screen so I could repeat it for you exactly, but it was something like 10-15 emoji (I think 2 or 3 different emoji hearts all strung together)....like it got "crazy" that it was being "challenged". So, THIS IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. I share it here because i've tried everything else (as you can see) AND I want this to HELP and call ATTENTION to Apple to spend some serious resources to fix this issue. As you can see, it's NOT hardware, it's something malicious and it's (seemingly?) LIVE.

     

    THE ONLY WAY to "STOP" it (temporarily) is to hit the power button and go into "sleep" mode or, I guess until it goes into autolock (per whatever time you input in settings for that)..but then OBVIOUSLY you need to use your phone again usually in a few seconds or minutes if you're a typical, modern user, so to have to CONSTANTLY (when this occurs) go INTO sleep mode JUST to protect yourself (your privacy of your phone) is f'ing annoying.  Again, the only reason I write all this is not to be mean or hurtful but to HELP users and to help Apple and to add value to Apple (cuz how could someone not share this experience?), since this is a perfect issue for community and for people to come together and TRY to figure out what app or apps is/are causing this.

     

    NOTHING seems to make a difference. I've experimented with seemingly all settings/various combinations eg cellular on/off and roaming on/off and wifi on/off and airplance mode on/off. I thought (?) at one point that the airplane mode helped...but I think that was just for a while. I have to check again. I even changed my wifi password and my router passwords and keys.

     

    So I have to be truthful to myself: Since, remember, I had this problem BEFORE & AFTER my iPhone 6 replacement from Apple, since the phone arrived (presumably) clean, when I restored from iCloud, we obviously have to consider (right?) that it is one of the apps (or a security weakness that's being exploited by some developers, or maybe even by some spyware that's out there on the market, bought by jealous people... and I should add one eery thing in that vein: I noticed the activity was going on for about an hour or two (?), but when my "i'm not jealous type" gf got home, and parted from her phone ....the problem suddenly stopped. I'm not crazy. I just want this majorly important iPhone issue fixed since it's affecting my life very seriously. I haven't even read past a couple pages here, so I'm guessing that I'm going to read a lot of what I just described (but presented in much smaller pieces). Dear Apple, please bring this to the attention of your top people. I know you have a lot on your plate, but actually, nothing comes before this. This issue should be #1 since, no matter how you cut it, there's obviously a security flaw that's being exploited and wreaking major havoc. Thanks and hopefully you'll fix this ASAP cuz it's affecting me every day and affecting my productivity, piece of mind and overall user satisfaction. I like iPhone. I want to stay with iPhone, but I can't stay if this isn't fixed soon. Thanks again. 

  • by DavidOpdyke,

    DavidOpdyke DavidOpdyke Mar 31, 2016 6:39 AM in response to me2on6
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    Mar 31, 2016 6:39 AM in response to me2on6

    Do you ever put your phone in your back pocket?  What you're describing is a bent iPhone 6 (VERY slightly) that is causing false touch.  I know, when you want to see patterns in the input, it's easy to do so.  You also won't believe me, and will insist that someone cares enough to hack your device.  You need to accept the reality that it's not happening.  If you cannot accept this, it may be worth putting the phone down for a few days.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 31, 2016 6:44 AM in response to me2on6
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    Mar 31, 2016 6:44 AM in response to me2on6

    From what I was able to discern from that wall of text, you're describing a bad digitizer, a hardware problem. You may also have a corrupt back up.

     

    The person to whom you're replying also doesn't appear to have posted in this thread in well over a year.

  • by me2on6,

    me2on6 me2on6 Mar 31, 2016 6:55 PM in response to applefreak77
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    Mar 31, 2016 6:55 PM in response to applefreak77

    EXACTLY moienappleuser & applefreak77. You're correct. Your experience and everyone else’s here experiences here seem to match. Everyone keeps describing the same activity but nothing’s being done by Apple? Personally I’ve experienced this at least 2 or 3 years on at least 3 different models. And, actually, I have an iPhone 6. This post WHILE LONG, I think will shock you.

    First of all, this is not just a “FB” thing (there’s a lot of entries here because FB is just one of the most common apps/sites). I don’t even have a FB account. It’s global. Almost every other user here DESCRIBES in great detail ALL the ways this malware/spyware is behaving. My post may be a little shocking, but it’s intended to help others and Apple too (and hopefully I’ll benefit too, in the end, by having a more secure phone that doesn’t use itself more than I use it lol). Here goes….

    This “phantom” swiping, tapping, texting, dialing, browsing & changing of settings more was happening off & on for maybe a year or two (?)... in retrospect I think even when I had my 4 & 5S. I tried to ignore it as best I could but it’s just gotten worse and worse. So, for the past 6 months or so, I've had the SAME PROBLEM EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCING here on my iPhone 6. Everyone’s just describing DIFFERENT MANIFESTIONS (symptoms) of the SAME DISEASE. The disease is malware / spyware, imo, thru some security flaw in the iPhone. I’ve experiences all these symptoms off & on for the past few years. However, the problem continued and got seemingly worse with time (or started wearing on me lol). So I called Apple (a kick-*** company) and they REPLACED my phone. First let me say: I'm a HUGE fan of Apple, Steve Jobs, and the legacy of high standards that continues.  HOWEVER, this is a huge problem that REMAINS UNADDRESSED (unfixed).  I WOULD share this stuff on iphone feedback page \ but they have a serious char limit, that this longer message would never make the cut. So here goes a post that's my actual experience.  So, I had ALL those same problems that EVERYONE is describing here.

    So, I had the problem AT LEAST as far back as my 5S, the again on my iPhone 6. So I called Apple and they sent me a BRAND NEW (replacement warranty) iPhone 6 (same model) … BUT GUESS WHAT??  THE EXACT same behavior started again!!! I kid you not. Very frustrating (the same feeling everyone is trying to convey in their posts here). When I called Apple Support (-1800-MYAPPLE), and spoke with the rep (who was a nice guy), he said (upon asking) that he had indeed seen it before several times, but as I tried to describe it, he sort of kept seeming to talk over me pushing the idea that it might be something between the screen and the circuitry / sensors, aka HARDWARE, specifically, what I found other sides refer to as "the digitizer" (just behind the touchscreen that converts your touch to signals). HOWEVER, from what I'm about to describe next, I STRONGLY DISAGREE. The problem is NOT hardware. And I think  you’ll agree, as you READ ON to the end of my post, that  it's obviously a SOFTWARE /SPYWARE ..or worse, cyberware or at MINIMUM a security flaw that’s being exploited. Read on if you dare. Now, I don't know if it's one of the "haters/spies" (like korea, china, russia or fbi lol), OR if it's just some jealous gf who intentionally planted something on my phone, but here's MY experiences (similar to most people here ....only with a STRANGE and eery twist! Read on!! The BASIC behavior of this malware / spyware (hey! that's how it acts!! let's be honest and call a spade a spade) is this: 1. I put the phone down (flat or leaning up against something) and it STARTS SWIPING and TAPPING keys and even dialing and going into folders, and AS IF "studying" (spying), and it looks at very sensitive items. It almost taunts you, but I couldn't actually prove it. SO YOU KNOW WHAT?  Today I tried many experiments to see what the heck is going on!  Actually, for a LONG time, I've felt deep-down that the problem is software, because like moienappleuser stated "junk character and make-sense statements". So...that's what made me start experimenting (in my own stupid way): First, I thought, because of the highly unusual PATTERN of "randomness" (the pattern is that it goes into things and almost like "investigating" or "checking things out"... like simulating human behavior, like too "inquisitive" to be just random and too ANNOYING in its patterns), so I thought definitely NOT hardware! So, figuring SOFTWARE, I started, ONE BY ONE, closing various apps that were open (common ones I use), and all throughout the day (whether it makes sense or not), I'd go into Safari and clear cache and history)---for almost a year now like 20 times a day)...only cuz I don't know better. Of course, MANY times every day I power off my phone and relogin, I logged out of my "less necessary" apps and/or changed passwords and even (me this time) started deleting unnecessary apps. ETC.  Anyway, so I kept trying to keep "just the minimum" apps I needed open...but it kept happening, so today, I closed even the last one.... but the problem continued.... and I was stumped!  So I was trying to "narrow" down which app might be doing it (I have maybe the typical or around 100 apps in total (just a guess)), and honestly, i couldn't do a "proper" test, where I delete everything and reinstall 1-by-1. I need my apps to survive, for business, etc. OK, NOW CHECK THIS OUT. Today the activity on my phone when I set it down was "crazier" than usual... i mean was so aggressive and out of control, going into apps, dialing, texting etc that EVEN I couldn't IGNORE it. It was like a jealous girlfriend. You ignored her and she got crazier. So, the more I ignored it, the more "crazy" it got (i can't explain it all, but I'll share just THREE things just today that happened): 1. When it wasn't "getting my attention" (terror, lol), it THEN TURNED ON THE FLASHLIGHT (by swiping up and touching the flashlight to drain my battery VERY fast...you can ALWAYS "see" what's happening until ur phone goes auto lock I guess (?)--haven't tested or wouldn't know how to. 2. I could also see it TRYING to go into apps where you have to enter a 4 digit passcode! It tried OVER & OVER & OVER...until I got LOCKED OUT of the app myself!! (delay time)...before it started again! It wasn't like (yeah, I read a little like we all do) "brute force" meaning it didn't look like it was going sequentially or whatever, but it was "persistent". So, lest you think I'm crazy, here's a 3rd and LAST one I'll share with you cuz I'm out of time: 3) during one of it's "mock" or "random" or "junk" characters (true most of the time). READY?  Ok, ... WHILE it was keying in RANDOM junk into a random text, I "randomly ADDED" (I inserted the cursor AS it was typing):  "i love u" BUT I cleverly added (for my own testing) a HEART EMOJI in place of the word "love", so there were 3 chars: i(heart)u.  THEN the spyware/cyberware/whatever  continued its "RANDOM" text entries...but I watched closely studying (intently for patterns lol)....I say "lol" because I was shocked when about 15 seconds later (guestimate), it "WROTE BACK" (within the same string of text still and after lots more normal text characters)... a message that included a LOT of emoji hearts (but a different one!)... so whoever (not whatever...and it's NOT hardware!! DUH!!) is doing this is MALICIOUS. I wish I had recorded the screen so I could repeat it for you exactly, but it was something like 10-15 emoji (I think 2 or 3 different emoji hearts all strung together)....like it got "crazy" that it was being "challenged". So, THIS IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. I share it here because i've tried everything else (as you can see) AND I want this to HELP and call ATTENTION to Apple to spend some serious resources to fix this issue. As you can see, it's NOT hardware, it's something malicious and it's (seemingly?) LIVE.

     

    THE ONLY WAY to "STOP" it (temporarily) is to hit the power button and go into "sleep" mode or, I guess until it goes into autolock (per whatever time you input in settings for that)..but then OBVIOUSLY you need to use your phone again usually in a few seconds or minutes if you're a typical, modern user, so to have to CONSTANTLY (when this occurs) go INTO sleep mode JUST to protect yourself (your privacy of your phone) is f'ing annoying. Again, the only reason I write all this is not to be mean or hurtful but to HELP users and to help Apple and to add value to Apple (cuz how could someone not share this experience?), since this is a perfect issue for community and for people to come together and TRY to figure out what app or apps is/are causing this.

     

    NOTHING seems to make a difference. I've experimented with seemingly all settings/various combinations eg cellular on/off and roaming on/off and wifi on/off and airplance mode on/off. I thought (?) at one point that the airplane mode helped...but I think that was just for a while. I have to check again. I even changed my wifi password and my router passwords and keys.

     

    So I have to be truthful to myself: Since, remember, I had this problem BEFORE & AFTER my iPhone 6 replacement from Apple, since the phone arrived (presumably) clean, when I restored from iCloud, we obviously have to consider (right?) that it is one of the apps (or a security weakness that's being exploited by some developers, or maybe even by some spyware that's out there on the market, bought by jealous people... and I should add one eery thing in that vein: I noticed the activity was going on for about an hour or two (?), but when my "i'm not jealous type" gf got home, and parted from her phone ....the problem suddenly stopped. I'm not crazy. I just want this majorly important iPhone issue fixed since it's affecting my life very seriously. I haven't even read past a couple pages here, so I'm guessing that I'm going to read a lot of what I just described (but presented in much smaller pieces). Dear Apple, please bring this to the attention of your top people. I know you have a lot on your plate, but actually, nothing comes before this. This issue should be #1 since, no matter how you cut it, there's obviously a security flaw that's being exploited and wreaking major havoc. Thanks and hopefully you'll fix this ASAP cuz it's affecting me every day and affecting my productivity, peace of mind and (obviously) overall user satisfaction. I like iPhone. I want to stay with iPhone, but, judging from all the smug, snarky and dismissive replies re “butt dialing” and “it didn’t happen” etc by level 9’s here, Apple’s not taking this issue seriously. Instead of FIXING it, it’s DISMISSING it. This is a MASSIVE security flaw. People keep describing this year after year after year. Don’t sidestep the problem. FIX THE PROBLEM, because what everyone’s describing here is a massive breach in security and personal security that’s clearly not only affecting iPhone 5 but also iPhone 6. The problem is NOT the hardware or “a defective touchscreen”. It’s a security malware/spyware that behaves VERY SIMILAR TO what you might see in a faulty touch-screen…only much more malicious and PURPOSEFUL as you can see from the details I’ve shared above. Obviously the software is hacking (accessing) the IOS in ways that NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO.  It'll be Apple's job to test (control) all these variables one-by-one to professionally and properly narrow down, then find, the culprit app and/or code and/or security flaw. That's just my take, but an important set of experiences I wanted to share with everyone so that we can GET THIS RESOLVED IMMEDIATELY.

  • by me2on6,

    me2on6 me2on6 Mar 31, 2016 6:58 PM in response to me2on6
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    Mar 31, 2016 6:58 PM in response to me2on6

    PS I've updated this post below on

  • by hickey_hm,

    hickey_hm hickey_hm Mar 31, 2016 7:09 PM in response to suzanne3382
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    Mar 31, 2016 7:09 PM in response to suzanne3382

    Upgrade to iOS 9, its quite simple

  • by me2on6,

    me2on6 me2on6 Apr 2, 2016 10:10 PM in response to dkrdelta
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    Apr 2, 2016 10:10 PM in response to dkrdelta

    Right. It seems abundantly obvious from all the posts here- whether it's an app that's exploiting the IOS or some sort of direct remote hacking-- that Apple should proactively create a division that acts LIKE a ccleaner plus a BUILT-IN antivirus. THEN BUNDLE IT.   I use a firewall, antivirus ccleaner etc for my computer, and I never have problems. But, if you add up the last few years that I've had these "phantom swiping/tapping, browsing", etc issues, and all the phones I've purchased, it's EASILY the same TOTAL cost I paid for a computer.  But if you then add the costs in time, headaches hassles etc of dealing with these types of security issues (remember time is money), the cost we pay is actually much greater. Now, think about it, it's a little bit shocking (honestly, very shocking) that one could put out an OS, without including an antivirus. I mean, can you imagine if Microsoft was still putting out Windows without Defender or without Security Essentials? They believe in them so much they include them in their security updates. It's the same thing. I think we would all agree that a PHONE (yes, even yours/mine) IS JUST A SMALL COMPUTER. Just cuz it has YOUR os (IOS) doesn't magically confer papal infallability. Another analogy is that, when users are allowed to download apps or anything of the web thru the phone, it's like having indiscriminate sex with the world WITHOUT using condoms. Russian roulette really. I mean acknowledging your brilliant device and programmers, security updates with your IOS, let's be honest, has obviously missed something. I always keep the latest IOS (after reading what's included etc). But no response really isn't a response to all these virtually identical descriptions and behaviors everyone's citing here. So, I have this proposal: Dear Apple Board of Directors, WHY NOT MAKE THIS PROBLEM AN OPPORTUNITY and a win-win for everyone?   Here's how (it's not perfect; it's just an idea):  Apple, why don't you include an antivirus OPTION, which (obviously) a massive segment of the market will WANT to PURCHASE. Then (don't worry!) you simply offer this guarantee: "If your iPhone gets hacked, we will not only replace your phone BUT we will reimburse you for the entire amount of the antivirus (eg monthly installments) that you've paid to date." That way, you're a) GAINING market share; b) GAINING consumer confidence; c) KEEPING customers who might otherwise go to the dark side (Samsung lol); and d) ultimately, putting your money where your mouth is; e) People will respect that. 

  • by me2on6,

    me2on6 me2on6 Apr 2, 2016 10:18 PM in response to me2on6
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    Apr 2, 2016 10:18 PM in response to me2on6

    Meg St Clair or moderator, Go ahead and remove my 1st post on Mar 30, 2016 11:58 PM.  A later, updated version was submitted

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 3, 2016 6:51 AM in response to me2on6
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    Apr 3, 2016 6:51 AM in response to me2on6

    Apple should do no such thing, there is already too much paranoia in the world

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Apr 3, 2016 1:39 PM in response to me2on6
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    Apr 3, 2016 1:39 PM in response to me2on6

    me2on6 wrote:

     

    Right. It seems abundantly obvious from all the posts here- whether it's an app that's exploiting the IOS or some sort of direct remote hacking-- that Apple should proactively create a division that acts LIKE a ccleaner plus a BUILT-IN antivirus. THEN BUNDLE IT.

    Why should Apple create something that would only be of value to the people who were already foolish enough to remove the extremely effect protection that Apple has already built into iOS devices.

     

    There are no viruses that can affect an iOS device unless it has been jailbroken.

  • by rocket1410,

    rocket1410 rocket1410 Apr 3, 2016 1:42 PM in response to Csound1
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    Apr 3, 2016 1:42 PM in response to Csound1

    Does apps like FB and Linkedin that allows people to look at other profiles potentially can embed hacking software?

    I plan to delete these apps..as a precaution..

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