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You’ve been asking variations of this same question for a while now.  Here are four that were available from a previous check of your recent questions:

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Are you going to be satisfied with answers to another posting of a very similar question? Likely not.

Can iPhones be hacked? Absolutely.

Has your iPhone been hacked? Likely no.

Are you worth hacking? Sorry, but you’re probably just not worth hacking.

If you really are worth hacking—if you’re an investigative journalist, someone with access to sensitive or confidential or substantial financial information, a dissident, a politician or government officeholder, a well-funded and nefariously-inclined (ex?)domestic partner, etc—then here in the Apple Forums probably isn’t the best spot to learn all about security, and about securing yourself.

Figuring out exactly what happened with a particular device is difficult and expensive with direct access to your devices, tooling, and time. With no access and remote discussions, determining if there are issues is based on evidence gathered, and that evidence needs to be pretty specific. Coincidences and gaslighting and other shenanigans is a thing that targeted folks do encounter.

What to do? Malware persisting past a backup-wipe-install-restore is quite rare. Problems with credentials, far less rare.

There are folks that do have suggestions here for those experiencing problems with former partners, including Eva Galperin of EFF and the Badass Army non-profit folks.

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Now ask yourself a few questions about your concerns here: what concrete steps have you taken to identify and address the risks you perceive here, who is your threat, how much are they willing to spend to attack you and your iPhone, and what steps have you taken to reduce your exposure: two-factor authentication, unique generated passwords, upgraded passwords ro your mail servers associated with password recovery, using s password manager, upgraded security questions, establishing a trusted telephone number, and—if you’re particularly concerned about the current contents of your iPhone—a backup, wipe, reinstall, and restoration, as persisting over a restore is quite difficult. You’ll want to look at something newer than that iPhone 7, if security is a particular concern. Not repeatedly visiting sketchy web sites, too.

Most folks with iPhones tend to get in trouble with phishing, and not with iPhone exploits. Which is where two-factor authentication helps.

Yeah, this stuff is all work. But you’re clearly concerned about security. Welcome to what that can mean: work to maintain and upgrade our security.

For another recent discussion on this topic, skim this thread, among others:

Iphone hacked, how? - Apple Community

And as was mentioned in another recent reply elsewhere: In no particular order, we have folks posting around here that probably have been targeted by attackers, those folks that are just plan wrong about their assumptions or beliefs or perceptions about security, other folks that have underlying medical issues or that are bad historians, some that are seeking to cause confusion or concern or disruptions or anger among others, those folks that have been targeted by private entities and that often illegally and sometimes with the involvement of a cellular carrier or a rogue cellular “tower”, and we probably also have those folks that are legally or illegally targeted by national entities and whether foreign and domestic, and we have folks posting from different countries and regions with differing regulations and regulatory customs to complicate matters further.

And yes, there’s been malware around for iOS and iPadOS that does not require a jailbreak. That usually gets fixed pretty quickly, but some of the exploits involved are valued at a million dollars if not more. And simply using these exploits and the associated tooling risks exposure and remediation, rendering the tooling and the particular exploits rather less valuable; restricted to folks with older and down-revision software and hardware targets.

No. But they can do a lot of other things, including permanently disabling your phone. So protect your Apple ID so it can’t be hacked. That’s easy; first create a good, strong password, then add 2 factor authentication. This will pretty much guarantee that your Apple ID can’t be hacked.

That cited paragraph is one I wrote. Yes, that is the case. There has been malware that does not require a jailbreak.

The folks that build and sell exploits have variously been offering million-dollar payment for certain classes of iOS vulnerabilities.

Using those exploits exposes them to scrutiny from the targets, and from the folks working to secure the targets. Including Apple. Typically reticent Apple has discussed this, too: A message about iOS security - Apple

There is never total security. Never. Anything that can be built can be breached.

Your available choices are to make breaching you and yours more difficult, or to be without.

Which means enabling and using two-factor authentication, establishing trusted telephone numbers, better passwords across your environment, wiping and reloading untrusted devices, or replacing untrusted devices when in higher-risk situations. And it means steps well beyond your apparent focus on your devices. Audio bugs are far from a new technology, and can be employed entirely independently of an iPhone.

For journalists, showing the breadth of considerations that can arise with security: https://cpj.org/safety-notes/

For iPhone users with moderate risks? Current software versions, current devices, better passwords, two-factor, etc.

But there is no certainty here, and cannot be.

rizwan196 wrote:

Can iPhones be hacked? Absolutely.

How???

The technical answer to that question is worth a million dollars or so.

More generally? You’re probably not going to be targeted with a valuable exploit.

But again, there can be no certainty here. Security doesn’t work like that.

Like purchasing insurance, it’s up to you to decide how much security, and how much security is too much.

Which means backup, wipe, reinstall, restore, and it means upgrading your own securityM including two-factor, better passwords, better physical device security, etc.

rizwan196 wrote:

better physical device security, etc.

what means by physical device security.

Keeping your devices under your control, at all times. Avoiding allowing others to physically access your device.

Usually more important here past the backup-wipe-reload-restore being two-factor, better passwords, control over your password recovery paths, unique passwords, etc. All the sorts of stuff that’s work.

Back up. Wipe. Reload. Restore. Enable two-factor authentication. Better passwords. Etc. See my previous replies here.