MDM on personal iPhone - Businesses, unauthorized developer activity HELP!

I’ve been dealing with similar since 2019. However I had a group of high tech hackers move in next door.

I’ve called in/went into the provider store too many times to count regarding this “MDM” issue and many of the things you’re dealing with and have been told that yep I can’t be hacked but if you search online with words “hacker placed men on my iPhone”, or “iPhone hacked”, you’ll find legitimate tech sites showing that apple knew about the problem back even as far as 2015.

There is also the issue of some using Microsoft Azure to do some control but if you go onto your Apple ID and search for system status then look for developer status, you’ll see if you’ve been linked to Apple’s business software or schooltime etc. you may get lucky and be able to click and see exactly the developer that is connected to them. That may help.

EllieDolanStl wrote:

Any advice? I can’t trust anything.

This sounds quite serious so here's my 2 cents.. It's not possible to know what's going on with just the info you provided and anything's possible, but for starters, I do have a question about your statement "They are constantly in my iCloud account doing things like disconnecting my eSim, leaving creepy photos of me". Leaving creepy photos is a fairly uncommon thing to report in these type situations and such an occurrence would no doubt be very creepy. Can you give any other info on this? Are you absolutely positive that you aren't taking the pictures on accident, or moving a file to another location and not realizing it? Have you considered the possibility of medical illness which may make you forget certain actions that you yourself are actually responsible for? Remember it'd be impossible to know unless you do something like set up a camera to record everything for later review. Do you have any reason to believe the government keeping tabs on you? Have you ever done anything that may have been perceived as a potential marker for terrorist activity? Visiting extremist websites, participating in discussions, or share a home network with anyone who may have done something to that effect? Regardless of your own personal beliefs or reason for viewing such content. For example did you have some school assignment related to terrorism and visited a few too many websites in your studies? Consider your value as a target to a state-sponsored actor or any individual..why would they want to do something like this to you? If you can't find a reason like for example you're a high net worth individual, an activist, a potential extremist, you had lots of jilted lovers, etc., then the alternative may very well be that you are mistaken and your brain is understandably misinterpreting things that may be fairly ordinary events as a response to some legitimate things you witnessed that evidence some network intrusion you've suffered.

Take for example the other part of "they are constantly in my iCloud account doing things like disconnecting my eSim". There may very well be a problem with your eSim it could even be hacking related but your eSim and your iCloud account are not of much relation to each other. You may be observing certain events and misunderstanding what is actually happening. It's not going to be possible to know from the info you can provide via this forum but I am fairly certain you are misunderstanding some things and are describing others that are clear evidence of a problem. Knowing the difference can be difficult and is nearly impossible when you yourself are the victim.

Now what can you really do about it? Change all of your passwords to everything and write down your updates on a piece of paper. Then sign out of all your accounts everywhere. You need to take all of your bluetooth and internet capable electronic devices and all files you own and disconnect them from their power source then safely store them for some distant date for possible data recovery or investigation. Contact your mobile phone company somehow like in-person at the store and cancel your phone service and store your phone as well with the rest of the hardware. Physically disconnect all batteries. Be sure you've purged everything for a period of time like a few days to make sure. Move away from any compromised devices outside your control. Purchase new devices once safely away from all other potentially compromised devices and set up new accounts including email. Do not use cloud services to store data. Do not use suggested passwords, eydfcrare too quickly cracked and only provide the illusion of a secure password. Passwords don't need to be extremely complex or overly long, just slightly more complex than the typical suggestions. Minimize exposure to networks and networked devices as much as possible.

This will probably help you but for most people it's nearly impossible. One important thing is that once a device has been compromised there is often nothing that can be done. Maybe this is why you've encountered such little help bout all this. After all, what do you want them to do..give you new iPhones and MacBook Pros?

But really at the end of the day what are these people getting from you? Have they stolen your money? If not, well then your privacy was never really promised anyway. It's the internet, it's inherently insecure. Security is often times severely lacking and falsely claimed so unless you have invested the time and resources to create it and are aware of limitations, it doesn't exist. The lies companies will tell you about the superiority of their products are only lies if know the truth, which few people do and when they learn it it can be shocking and disillusioning. Panicked responses typically makes someone stand out from the crowd and then victim to ostracization.

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Check out post by JMurphyCO and his responses. One guy had a very concise list (which I

thought impossible) that lists both issues and fixes (for some things). It sounds like many ppl here are IT/Tech/Security. The others tell ppl they are paranoid. Yet over 5,200 had read my original post a while back!

I’ve had many similar issues. Look up very technical precise description from JMurphyCO and responses. Like yourself, I’ve learned that replacing all devices does not help. Search for “MDM” with wildcards on your PC/Mac. But knowing you have apps (including many hidden) does not remove them. I have contacted the Apple 3rd party venders to get some removed or disabled. But most apps remain.

You might want to run a System-diagnostic check on your device. If you google “how to do sys-diagnostic test on iPhone with touch assis.” It catches “leaks” on some of the processes running and you’ll see it’s easy to do and well worth what you’ll find running on your device. This can help you decide what kind of services you’ll want to look for. You could be right that part of the security intrusion has to do with your location. This diagnostic check revealed an unbelievable amount of security breaches and surveillance activity. A stingray device collecting and filtering all my communications. I would be interested to see what others find hidden in their devices and networks with this check.

Hi Katie,

it sounds like your already on the right path with blue tooth and your apple id. If you buy a new phone, dont use any of the old apple ids you have had, be careful of email and sms attacks and most of all, make sure no settings can be changed while your phone is locked / unattended. and of course wifi too, if you haven't check out apple developer programs, basically all they need is your apple ID and device numbers and access to your phone when they have the password. Your in it for the long haul, but don't fret - you'll get there!

J.

i've had same issue senior support hangs up on me een sealing with this for 5 years now had 5 brand new iphones quit working an ipad as well support sets up a call from senior advisor i explain issue and soon as i do they hang up on me currently out over 10,000 dollars in brand new personal iphones .hired a private investigator team and all information they have collected goes all the way back to a developer from apple hacking me and trying to blackmail me for 1500 dollars for some reason they tracked the call back to austin texas and next week they are flying there to confront the developer who did this wish me luck this is a major fraud and cyber theft issue and will hopefully end up throwing developer in prison and refunding all my money i've been ripped off for for last 5 years but we will see next week just wish the developer would of came forward on there own and turned themselves in but we will see come next week have documented everything since day one 5 years ago

Me too! All of the above. And they use Xcode & DT tools to make “user” & bundle versions of my apps to manipulate the settings that I can change. Use a lot of open source software. I believe that somehow they’re using my biometrics because sometimes my face scans only when I open up settings altogether. Which I’m sure they’re using somewhere else. Whenever I use screen time settings for and need more time, it always asked me twice. Like there is two screens. I find that it’s being mirrored to a PC and doing all kinds of things and has known about this since, November September 2022 and can’t get any help. Scary. The police said I called out over 10 times because they were coming. My home also only advised me to make a IC3 complaint. Which I made one back in 2022 and took screenshots of it. It made another in 2023 and that pages are different. Every site I visit is different than it should be, be acceptable. We spend on these devices and for their service just for people to steal them and have more access than we do.

also, if you have T-Mobile and it says in cellular settings that your plan is whitelist and regular usage. That means it’s only tallying and adding up the usage that is not streaming. So that is an in accurate amount of data it shows used. I went from 182 GB which I never used anywhere close the month before it turned to white and regular and then it went back to normal around 50.

Correction, report to IC3.gov not org! You likely can’t report on your devices, wii have to go to a public PC.

Correction, IC3.gov (on a different OC). Take a look at WSJ on YouTube, search on IPhone attacks, a ring of ppl (in several states) have been stealing iPhone data!

Another thing don’t back anything up go into iCloud settings shut it off exclude the mail gotta leave it on to get mail. NO WI-FI

wifi is the biggest enemy

I’ve experienced the same, & have recorded multiple ip addresses coming from my 13 -1T. It is disturbing. I switched carriers thinking that was the issue, also upgrading my 1 year old phone. After 3 days, my new phone, that I was manually re-entering data to, started functioning the same.

It is debilitating.

I am going through the same struggle. You were probably not actually on a phone call or chat with the legitimate Apple support, usually when you contact you will get a confirmation email of your contact. I also got elevated to the “Senior Technician” and I got suspicious and started asking questions and he hung up. That was from a “chat” and then the person typing said their supervisor would ring me straight back. Another time I was calling the correct number from my iPhone using the legitimate Apple website number, she asked for my AppleID and then tried to get me to screen share (did not ID me other than my email address) so I hung up.

I ended up taking in to the Apple Store my devices which were reset but it hasn’t resolved. From what I have pieced together it has been active for at least a year on my iPhone. The updates have not solved anything. I have never run anything non genuine on it and it’s always been keep updated. Tonight I captured my MacBook Pro kernel launching a buffer overflow to one of the Apple Devices.

I have also had the battle of the off and on settings, although it hasn’t happened on the iPhone in front of me as soon as I close Settings it changes it back.

Unfortunately until more people start kicking up a fuss we are on our own. I’m stuck with thousands of dollars worth of new Apple products that are not in my control.