What is iOS Account Manager?

I have it on my phone and I know someone who is causing me great damage to my life and business is doing it. It appears it is a fake Google accounts app that installs some malware which makes you think your logging in to your accounts but really your passing your password into people who are hacking into your email. This woman has taken over my website and has had access to all passwords and has been reading , deleting mail and contacting Google support as though she is me. She has got hold of dns records of domain and has set up Google consoles , moved my hosting of website, it’s a nightmare and is ruining my business and life. If you have this on your phone, be very worried ! I can’t even reset my phone properly, going to a apple shop tomorrow for help. It isn’t good though!

Thank for replying

I would feel better if I was able to view and open the main sign in date that has the “IOS Account Manager” showing. When it says there are 13 sessions running and I tap on it to view those sessions and close what I don’t want or I don’t know it won’t even open. I just waited 2 hours to speak to a lady at Google and she said that she had no idea what it could be or how to address it because she is only Google help, Not Apple. And that only Apple can use “IOS”.

I called My Apple and even shared my screen and showed them and He had no clue what it is either. Who in the heck knows? “Account Manager” usually is IT

or companies managing their own devices in their network. It’s off my phone if I don’t have Google on my phone or signed in to Google. Then there’s the issue of not being able to use Google services completely if I’m not signed in. I’m so confused and

I Want this off my personal account.

Who knows what it is getting from our phones without us being able to do anything and NO ONE knows anything…

just sayin…

Hey this is something I’ve felt with for 2 years, also captive apple popping up on my phones. Changed Apple ID got 9 new phones, lost money from compromised accounts and apple not google knows anything. I think this is something that needs to be addressed and have lawyers involved as I am for sure! Have any of you had pictures disappear from your phone? Or crazy websites showing up on your home network? I’ve had one apple support member even tell me to get a lawyer and private investigator bc it was compromised, that he could loose his job even but what he was seeing was wrong and should not happen as he was on screen share. Then another chick from apple recognizes a letter that had 3 backslashes and apple only has 2 but nothing has been done yet and I’ve even called FBI and cyber crime unit.

Same here! I have sent multiple screen recordings & snapshots of things that have happened with my phone. Tx msgs & emails being read & opened by someone else. My ex partner sent his sister & tx msg before Xmas but it came from my phone number. He was receiving every single iMessage & had my WhatsApp on his phone without me ever getting a single notification? Pictures & evidence vanishing. I had to install a lock folder on a old phone I had. Called the police bevause I believed it wasn’t him but thought someone was trying to send me round the bend, they even hacked into my tv & changed all of the picture/colour settings…… the police did nothing!! Because no money has been taken! I called cyber crime, again nothing, made to feel stupid for asking for help. Even tho me ask them was the final straw after being made to feel crazy for nearly 2 years!! I’m still waiting to hear back and it’s been 4 months. Time & mental health I will never get back but to Apple it means nothing.

I wish I didn’t need a smart phone so I could use a Nokia, but not possible in this world anymore.

Something really should be done, the amount of money we spend on Apple to get left out in the cold we we really need them is completely unfair. 🫨😔

My home network, windows 10 pc, and Iphone was recently hacked. I have been (and am continuing) working with my wireless carrier and my ISP to resolve it all. I Just a few minutes ago signed back into gmail account via the gmail app for the first time in over a week, and after the genius bar wiped my devices clean & reinstalled software; and after my phone number and sim card have been changed. I have been checking all of my gmail account settings to secure the account. after being logged in for 29 minutes someone else logged in on an iphone located in the city where I live. I investigated and indicated to google I didnt recognize the device so google signed me out of it. Next I saw 2 additional active unknown devices signed in - 1 being an ipad and 1 an iphone - neither are mine. Both of these say IOS Account Manager. Interestingly, I just now noticed under my iphone's active connection it has my correct iphone name, correct location and says IOS ACCOUNT MANAGER underneath! under that there is a checkmark indicating this iphone connection is the phone I am currently using!

I do not know what this IOS Account Manager is, but it might explain why the passwords on many of my other (non google related) are "incorrect", and do not work. I use a password manager and always make changes to passwords inside the password manager. I know someone has been changing my passwords - I am not sure how. maybe this IOS Account Manager is the culprit - if I only knew what it is!!

I will continue following this thread and will post if I find out anything new. Incidently last night I changed my wifi network name and password, signed out of wifi then signed in again to make sure it was working. This morning the password was not recognized so I have updated via the router, signed out and am now signed back in. If it gets changed again I am going to scream 🤬!

Is your device in YOUR name or someone else’s?? If for instance a spouse has the account & purchased you a device, it’s technically theirs & you are a user of THEIR device. Therefore what no one tells you is they are allowed to enroll/manage that device with MDM & you like me will not even receive notifications, just hints here/there. It’s underhanded & abusive to your privacy but not illegal. As far as help, there is none bc you don’t own it. The only solution is to get your own device in your name only on your own account, then it’s illegal. Sad truth & shouldn’t be allowed but companies don’t want you knowing this loophole exists. JAMF is one mdm to look into. You may be enrolled as a student or a minor or just as a user & them owner/admin.

No one’s phone has been hacked. There are no valid stories to share. If you have a weak password and no 2 factor authentication for your Apple ID account there is a very slight chance your Apple ID has been compromised. If you think that’s possible:

Follow this guidance→If you think your Apple ID has been compromised - Apple Support

And you can actually see who has access to your Apple ID account→Checklist: If you want to see if anyone else has access to your device or accounts - Apple Support

It is none of those things. You may have spyware on your phone if you have a profile in Settings/General/VPN & Device Management, or if someone had physical possession of your phone while it was unlocked, but that has nothing to do with iOS Account Manager, which is a Google service that protects your google apps on your phone from being hacked.

From:https://www.fireebok.com/resource/how-to-remove-ios-account-manager-from-google-account.html

The iOS Account Manager is Google Account Manage platform for iOS, which protects your account from hackers when logging in on your iOS device and using Google apps and services. It also reminds you that your Google account is being used on an iOS device. 

You are likely to have it if you belong to a Google Workspace Group, or have a gmail account in the iOS Mail app, or other Google apps on your phone.

If you are concerned about spyware on your phone there is a simple solution: Restore your phone to factory settings, and set it up as a new phone without restoring a backup→Restore your iOS device to factory settings - Apple Support

Is there any way to have a phone conversation ? I have reset these thing 3 times over 2 weeks .But they keep going back to an old back up, I think ? Like within the day ? I think some how I am under the control of Google Admin and Microsoft Admin? I keep changing the passwords ?! Does no good!

What I have noticed when the my setting all change and the messages are from a previous month snd my contacts show double or triple repeated names/ numbers and my Messages will be turned off under iCloud is that my picture in settings flash’s from the Old Generic look to my picture when I go to setting to see what’s been changed . I let T-mobile close my account as they wanted to double my bill again (5 months in a row) T-mobile is worthless! I never got to make many calls! OMG? I don’t know what to do! I have learned more then I wanted to know and I still can not use my IPhones ?( and the L2TP that will not let me turn ‘send all traffic thru off’ has something to do with my issues!( I don’t have a VPN !)Im signed out and got this message ? I normally only get it when signed in?

Fitchic15,

What if a friend purchased a iPhone for me and I have my own phone bill for the number that’s attached to the device but the device itself and all payments are on her bill and she makes all payments? Is it ‘her’ device? How, if codes etc, come to me and my device could she possibly enroll/MDM? Thank you for the mention,

I appreciate knowing this. It makes total sense but I just didn’t think it though.

Go to Settings/General/VPN & Device Management. Is there a management profile? If there isn’t there is no MDM on the phone. In addition, to install MDM on a phone you need to register with Apple’s Enterprise Support service, be approved as a legitimate business by Apple and pay a substantial fee. So no MDM.

Lawrence Finch I have tried and fight for three months with Apple just trying to get my own data. Every worker I talk to for the first time said it all looked very suspicious and they are definitely gonna get down to it. Same with the supervisors they transferred me to yet, the next day I would talk to the supervisors they would simply tell me there’s nothing they can do they have no idea and that was that still haven’t received my information. Not to mention it was **** trying to stay in contact with them because somebody else was using my accounts to communicate with Apple.🤷🏼‍♂️