Text message regarding agreeing to Apple Media Services

KVinDC wrote:

1. My mother-in-law received a text message asking her to agree to iCloud and Apple Media Services terms and conditions and asked us if she needed to respond. She has no subscriptions and only uses the phone for voice calls and texts, and takes a few photos and we send her photos through a shared album. Two questions:

Does Apple really send users this kind of request via text message?

No. Please do not respond to any text or email messages

1. Don't share sensitive information pertaining to your device and payment methods
2. Beware of Phishing

When Apple modifies a service’s terms of agreements, the new terms will appear as a push notification sent at the time you go to use that service. So for example, changes to the App Store terms would only appear, as a push notification sent when you go to purchase or update an App, or when updating iOS, the terms and services agreement appears before you can install the update.

Push notifications are a secure and app or service specific method to present users with such forms they may need to interact with to proceed. But they only popup when you try to open or use the app or service in question.

With the iOS update, there should have also been an option for you to ask to have the terms emailed to you. But I have never heard of Apple sending them by email unless requested by user input.