Can Mac malware transmit to iPhone/iPad?

Weird question.. If I were to have installed a trojan horse or any other types of viruses and/or malware on my MacBook, then I were to connect and restore my iPhone and iPad using Finder, which reinstalls iOS, is there a possibility the malware that might’ve been on my computer spread to my two devices via the iOS system files?


I already asked Apple Support about it, and they told me that would be “very unlikely”. And I sometimes get a little paranoid about almost unheard of or unthought of things like this, so I’m also wondering what this community thinks. Can Mac malware actually transmit to iOS devices or does that not exist?


Thanks

Posted on Apr 3, 2021 4:23 PM

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Apr 3, 2021 5:02 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Do you mean nothing on my Mac can be shared to my iOS devices? I’m asking only because when I restored my iOS devices, it used my Mac’s internet connection through my computer to restore the software and all that stuff on my devices. I was thinking anything that could’ve been malicious might’ve got into the software of my iOS devices while my Mac was installing it.



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