Google says my device is “CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X”. Is that right?

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Google says my device is “CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X”. Is that right?

Did the device info available to google/apps during login change? Or did malware jailbreak and install mac OS on my phone?

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Posted on Jul 26, 2021 1:19 PM

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ChrisJ4203

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Jul 26, 2021 1:32 PM in response to user005

Lord knows how you are seeing that in Google, but my read of that is they are saying the operating system on the iPhone is iOS 14_7, and that is like MacOS X. Hard to say how that is being formatted, but that is my assessment of this.

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Jul 26, 2021 3:40 PM in response to user005

That is just the way the browser identifies itself via its user Agent. There’s nothing wrong with that. Google is just showing you part of the user agent which identifies the iOS version. Apple itself adds the “Like Mac OS X” part to the user agent.

Mine shows up as: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 14_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

I’m using Safari on my iPad.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

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user005 Author

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Jul 26, 2021 11:00 PM in response to Phil0124

Ok. Google must have changed this somewhat recently. Glad to see it is verbatim from user agent. Thanks, Phil0124!

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user005 Author

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Jul 26, 2021 3:05 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

Thanks ChrisJ4203. Yeah.. I may need to ask google forums, too.

There were IOCs (many) on my macbook, which I’m no longer using, but my phone was usb/hotspot/bluetooth/“trusted device”-connected to it numerous times… Otherwise, I’d make a similar conclusion with no further thought of this oddly worded device info. The malware still seems equally plausible though. :(

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ChrisJ4203

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Jul 26, 2021 3:30 PM in response to user005

Unless your device is jailbroken, then it cannot have malware installed. There is no way to have MacOS X installed on an iPhone.

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Google says my device is “CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X”. Is that right?

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