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What is iOS Account Manager?

Hello there, I was checking my google account security settings and I found out that "iOS Account Manager" is connected to my account but I've no idea what it is. I tried to log out from my account on my iPhone but when I log into YouTube it still appears (so it might can be related to yt but idk why). I also logged into safari and when I check for new logins in my google account setting it just says that safari is connected. You guys have any ideas on what this account manager is? sorry for my bad english.


iPhone 12 mini, iOS 15

Posted on Jun 1, 2022 7:15 AM

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Posted on Sep 4, 2022 12:16 PM

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!


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Sep 15, 2022 1:06 AM in response to Riccardo2424

I have it also from what I’ve learned I called Apple to get help well I didn’t know they were going to go into my phone I saw a red arrow and I said what is that he said I gave him permission to help me yes I did but to guide me.! Now I’m freaking out cause he was acting in my phone the only thing I know is IOS manager means they were in our personal space meaning our phones.

Sep 22, 2022 5:00 AM in response to Riccardo2424

I believe I figured it out, I signed into my sons account from my google page not gmail and it didn’t show but when I made his new Apple ID his Gmail and signed into it there that’s when it popped up I suppose google is getting more analytical with sign ins and trying to be less vague.


I also am a family manager on my sons iPhone and my aunt who I was testing the theory for is Under her boyfriends family account


Apple ID

family tab

Click and see if your email is attached and what account you are labeled under


Oct 8, 2022 8:20 PM in response to HollyHayes-Rey

As you didn’t read the rest of the thread: NOTHING is spying on you. iOS Account Manager is a Google app that coordinates the various Google features that you have installed on your phone so you don’t have to log into each separately, such as Google Search, gmail, Google Translate, Google One, Google Photos, Google Chrome, Youtube, etc.

Oct 11, 2022 5:25 PM in response to WendySuwho

This is a very serious issue. I have the same happening and I know I have been forcibly, against my will, placed under some monitoring/management/restrictive/supervised closed and hidden network of some kind. It’s a kind of intervention program. I have been battling for 2 years to work it out/escape from the clutches of these insipid, incessive, spineless cowards who have done this. I have a list of names and any one, or more of the perpetrators are on it. I have a plethora of evidence, it’s just where to take it is what I am being careful with. This is a nasty, evil and systematic program inflicted on innocent victims like myself and many others. There is sinister access to your devices/accounts etc, believe it! I have had a developer in my phone, continual resets, system settings being changed, Telstra cases are immediately closed, ios software code is modified, extra trust certificates are installed, text in search fields written by remote access, Google remote desktop even installed itself, remotely on a clean computer after signing into a Gmail account. That is just a pinch of what I have experienced. This is very sophisticated, top authority level access and those inflicting it have absolutely no regard for peoples or small childrens welfare. You can’t trust any App, the copius alerts that pop up on screen, or anything really to be legitimate.

And so far I have been able to receive zero assistance, only to be gas lighted. It’s abhorrent! Seek high level professional paid help, but be careful as a rep from Apple advised me. All the very best of luck and please post any developments you may fortunately have as I will……

Oct 12, 2022 11:03 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Lawrence, I have threatened that exact motion, practically word for word on many occasion. Unlike these oxygen thieving parasites, I have a spine and will not allow them to cowardly steal my basic human rights, my business, my freedoms from behind the false security of their screens. My day will come, patience is a virtue, and justice will be final.

P.S. The only trolling of interest to me is for Spanish Mackeral

Oct 31, 2022 3:59 AM in response to Reefhunter

I was personally placed under device management. When I would go to reset my phone it would ask for permission from the original device. But nothing popped up on my screen on my phone. Then on the computer the reset would cancel so I was unable to reset even through the phone as soon as it reset it would download something immediately and go into a different mode. They got a hold of my Snapchat and almost instagram. Lost my iCloud account. All my photos because I had to change numbers and get a new phone which was covered through Verizon insurance. They literally said my phone was hijacked, and there was nothing they could do other than replace mine.

Nov 13, 2022 11:10 PM in response to Riccardo2424

Hey guys .. i have read most of the comments and arguments you wrote. Actually i am facing the same problem, but what I figured out its and application who IT people know it mostly and some clever guys who uses mac as well , there is something called apple configuration on laptops through this who has ur password or any physical contact with ur phone can manage ur phone .. on google or edge (Microsoft) browser make search for iOS account manager and you will find some answers also on apple site go to develop and codes something like that you will find ur answer. The only question that i have now is how to unlink my email from this ….:

Nov 15, 2022 7:23 PM in response to odds on

Sounds almost exactly what’s been happening to me since my last breakup. I can’t control anything yet am in control of everything apparently. With the exception of apps like this one and a dozen others. I. Cannot control my computer, Domain, google and Amazon accounts or any electronics that I own that access the Internet etc…..yet not one of my kids multiple electronics have ever been affected by it. My bank account has been hacked three times amongst many other problems. I’m sure it does not help that my ex is a forensic auditor for Verizon and therefore can access anything and everything. Couldn’t get Google or Apple to help me for months until I gave up. Not sure if this is one of the apps contributing but it sure does look like it in my opinion.

Nov 27, 2022 2:53 AM in response to Riccardo2424

Well, I t’s actually Spyware. If it wasn’t your company, if it’s a company-owned phone, it was probably installed by, as is my case, a totally controlling, sadistic piece of **** boyfriend. Most likely a boyfriend or a rival because it has the ability to “mimic,” all of the features of your actual device.


So, because my man is literally trying to drive me insane, he uses that account manager authority to shut off my ability to make or receive calls, after one particular fight, he went and changed all of my online account login details and even went further and put a 16-digit “Passcode,” on all of the accounts he changed and or deleted. And since, he monitors my phone 24/7, HE usually would get the reset recovery link before me, and he’d use it, so by the time I got to it, it would tell me the code was already used and is now invalid.


GET TO THE ROOT OF IT NOW OR JUST BACK YOUR WHOLE PHONE SYSTEM SETTINGS AND ALL, UP TO THE CLOUD AND THEN JUST FACTORY RESET YOUR PHONE.


Good Luck!!


AND INSTRUCTED THE CALL CENTER REP THAT, “NO ONE WITHOUT THAT PASSCODE HAS ANY AUTHORITY TO SPEAK WITH ANYONE THERE REGARDING {{MY}} THIS ACCOUNT.


Betcha guessed it, I don’t know the passcode.


So I’m locked out of 4 Gmail accounts, Two Microsoft accounts, my Yahoo account and my live.com account.

Along with my 11 Credit Card accounts, my Apple ID, my iCloud, Google, Microsoft 365 accounts.


PLUS MY SOCIAL MEDIA. 4 F8 Accounts, alone. My YT Premium, YT Music Premium, Paramount Plus, Prime, HBO MAX,


JUST EVERYTHING.


HE EVEN CHANGED ALL MY RECOVERY OPTIONS. Phone#, email addresses, ect.


And that’s not even the half of what he has been able to do since October 27, 2022. The exact day he installed it onto my phone.


And neither I, nor. At Least 6 APPLE TECH SUPERVISORS, can even find it listed or downloaded anywhere on either my hardware or in the software of any of my Apple devices.


I’m just at wits-end and seriously leaning towards heading back to Android.


I probably have had only androids for 21 of the 30+ years of owning mobiles and I NEVER RECALL ANYBODY EVER having the ability to gain such ABSOLUTE CONTROL over my life and happiness the way my; selfish, DOMINEERING, ruthless, nefarious, “life partner,” has done all within one short 30-day span of time.

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