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one of my known people send me a bad apk file to download.apk was named like child *** (18+).So I was going to ignore it.But Accidentally I clicked that one .It was about 2.4 mb .But I don’t think it worked .It didn’t got installed in my device but as I clicked on that thing,It would be a problem or I have to give flash thing ??

iPhone 14

Posted on Jan 8, 2023 1:35 PM

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Posted on Jan 8, 2023 3:03 PM

>Then,why It was downloading,It could give me a notification,It can’t be installed because of apk or something like that.It showed me 1-100 percent.No notification or no cancellation.And there is no sign of app also



You can download it, but iPhones do not read APK files. Even if they could, it would not function without executing the file. iPhones also sandbox apps, making it hard to "escape" without an unknown vulnerability, assuming your software is up to date.

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Jan 8, 2023 3:03 PM in response to hasi12

>Then,why It was downloading,It could give me a notification,It can’t be installed because of apk or something like that.It showed me 1-100 percent.No notification or no cancellation.And there is no sign of app also



You can download it, but iPhones do not read APK files. Even if they could, it would not function without executing the file. iPhones also sandbox apps, making it hard to "escape" without an unknown vulnerability, assuming your software is up to date.

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