Are iPhones safe from being hacked?

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Are iPhones safe from being hacked?

When I had an android phone everyone told me that iPhones were more secure and couldn’t be hacked now that I have an iPhone people keep telling me that iPhones are easiest to hack . I’m getting frustrated. Then I have apple telling me that I’m probably not being hacked yet weird stuff keeps happening to my phone like my Bluetooth setting being turned on by itself or airdrop some how being turned on in certain people message info or videos and pictures appear in my photos that I did not take????? What is going on here?

iPhone XR, iOS 14

Posted on Dec 20, 2020 5:06 AM

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Answer 1

SravanKrA

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Dec 20, 2020 5:07 AM in response to Bigkittylittlekitty1439

iOS / iPadOS devices cannot be hacked or infected with Virus / Malware / Spyware if it is updated to latest iOS/iPadOS, unless you have intentionally downloaded spurious softwares or unauthorized apps directly from the internet and installed on your device or/and have Jail Broken.

It (Hacking) also depends on how careful are you in sharing sensitive and valuable information pertaining to your iPhone such as Passcode, Password etc with your friends and family members.

Be careful when sharing the device's sensitive and valuable information with friends and family members.

Thumb Rules:

Enable Guided Access before handing over an iPhone to kids
Don't share Apple IDs
Don't Jail Break
Don't share sensitive information pertaining to your device and payment methods
Beware of Phishing

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Answer 2

Dec 25, 2020 4:22 PM in response to SravanKrA

It seems that all the devices in my house somehow sync atleast a little even when I have sync off for instance I have a fire stick hooked up to my smart TV I play music on my iPhone but when I go to my music just on YouTube channel on my tv , fire stick it knows all my music . My fire stick was supposedly jail broken when I bought it . Although I have doubts about that and my phone was supposed to be brand new when I bought it Fromm att but I now have doubts about that since I have been getting messages for someone else and a pop up saying that if I am signing in from another device they will send me a verification code even if I’m offline . I have never signed in from another device and this is my first iPhone . Honestly I feel like somehow someone is in my phone can they get ion it if it somehow is synced to my fire stick and it is jailbroken?

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Are iPhones safe from being hacked?

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