Google "detected unusual traffic" message on iPhone

hi i just had this problem and i restarted/powered off my phone and it’s working now. have i been hacked or is it just a glitch? can you explain what it was if you know because it’s making me very anxious

Settings, Safari, Advanced, Experimental Features, and turn on HTTP/3 and this stopped the “Google detected unusual traffic” captcha for me after doing some research it appears that Google uses HTTP/3 and some carriers are not on board with this yet and so Google thinks you’re a robot, I hope this helps.

Again have you tried going to safari, advanced, experimental features, and turning on HTTP/3 because for me on AT&T network where I live I consistently get “Google detected unusual traffic from your computer network” but the second I turned that on from a friends recommendation sure enough the block went away also though to solve getting those issues you could always just sign into Google and that also stopped Google from thinking I was a robot.

Maybe it’s too late but sharing an update. Happened to me few days back...no chance at all search anything via Safari on Google. Always did pop up message with Unusual traffic, not even able to pass Captcha as after verification another Captcha request appeared. Cleared history and website data, checked for Malware... nothing. So last try was restart iPhone and log in to my Google account and whoala!! Everything works fine and no message anymore. /iPhone X, O2 UK

None of these solutions worked for me. It seems to be the way that Siri is sending search results to open Youtube.

It works if I tell Siri "Look on youtube for..." and it displays a grid of videos to click.

If I just click the Siri search result after saying "hey siri...i have this question..." then click whatever link there for a youtube, then it doesn't work, every time. I have tried all the suggestions to fix it. It is something in the way that the search is being sent from the Siri result, through google, to the youtube page.

I'd love to see more complaints about this, it does seem to be an apple issue in the way searches are being redirected from the Siri result to open a youtube search result from Siri.

It has nothing to do with location or device, it happens on multiple friends' ipads and iPhones I've tried, and happens whether or not I'm using Wifi or cellular and happens from multiple locations on cellular and wifi.

Exactly. Very frustrating. None of the proposed solutions work. I had noticed this problem intermittently in past months and now it’s nonstop. Generally, the web suggests it’s an internet Id issue but that makes no sense given that it only happens with Siri and Youtube.

• Restart your iPhone
• Clear the history and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

https://www.lifewire.com/unusual-traffic-from-computer-network-errors-3968165

Same problem here on my 2019 MacBook Pro 15''... I have had this problem for over a year now, and I still have it plus more. Not only do I still have to do the "reCAPTCHA-20 TIMES A DAY", but google search and my Gmail account, for the matter, won't acknowledge or recognize that I own all Apple products, not Android/Google products.

My biggest problem with all this mess is even before returning to a Gmail/Google account again I tried using just an "@iCloud Email Only" as my email and applied it while using my Mac and iPhone only as my devices..... So ALL APPLE 100%, and yet, among a ton of other issues I was still getting "reCAPTCHA"...... All while troubleshooting with Apple Support for over a year. Again remember I had no Gmail account, no Yahoo account and, no Outlook account, and I still can't go 15min without getting caught up with tons of Errors, reCAPTCHA's, Kernal Panics, Beachballed to death, hanging apps, freezing system, passwords changing on there own, putting a third party email as a "REACHED AT ONLY" on my apple account, then next time one of my devices ask for a password, for one reason or another It whips my (reached-at email) up to the top of both my devices as my appleid and takes my @icloud, which was my true appleid user sign-in and makes it an alias. I'am Apple **** and I can't find the freaking front door.

I'm having the same issue. When you say you logged into your google account, are you logging-in in the Safari browser from the google web page, or are you logging-in in the iOS settings of your phone?

I haven't been able to find a fix yet.

Did it fix? If it did how so I am having the same issue at the moment

Deleted Safari history and website data and did a network reset (under General > Reset). Also had a ton of Safari tabs opened, so killed all of them in case they were simultaneously pinging Google. Not sure which, if any, helped, but haven’t gotten the error since.

There is no "experimental features" under Safari>advanced in my iPhone. Also this has nothing to do with Siri. At least on my phone. I've always kept Siri turned off. Siri drains my battery at an exponential rate & causes the phone to not charge correctly. I finally solved this problem entirely though. I bought an Android. I've owned several generations of iPhone since the very beginning but I'll never own an Apple product again. I've beome less & less of a fan of iPhones ever since iOS 6. When they got rid of the iPod app for the "music app" & started randomly deleting my music that was ripped from CDs I own & randomly deleteing my album art to replace with their incorrect album art. Now I've had enough. Good luck with their inferior products.

After many discussions with my VPN host, turning it on and off, all of the above suggestions etc etc, HunterRaze’s suggestion fixed this for me... it’s been about a week and no Google reCAPTCHA message, which was only happening on my iPhone and not PC or iPad. Just before this started I had dowloaded my latest iOS 14.4 update and my phone loads slower, I’m not sure if this has anything to do with it.

Did you ever fix this? I’m having the same problem at the moment and I restarted/cleared cookies/cache... etc