Notification on my iPhone saying I'm hacked

I would take your Iphone to the apple store as soon a s possible and do not engage with anything online or any weird websites. You can also call Apple support and they could help pout your mind at ease.

This is a scam that unfortunately seems to have worked. If you cannot make or receive calls, you should reach out to Apple Support.

Saegzz wrote:

Why tell the person that they’ve been hacked?

It's the way that many scammers operate. They tell the intended victim a lie that they hope is so frightening that the victim will panic, lose their wits, contact the scammer to "resolve" the problem, and fall into the trap.

• "We're the IRS. If you don't pay up now, over the phone, the sheriff's deputies are coming to arrest you."
• "Your granddaughter is in jail. Get some gift cards and read out the codes over the phone to bail her out."
• "Your computer is infected with hundreds of viruses. Click here to renew your anti-virus subscription."

All lies, told by scum of the Earth who like to prey on little old ladies and other unwary people, and who deserve to be shackled upside down to a wall in a dungeon.

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

https://consumer.ftc.gov/scams

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-avoid-scam

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-you-were-scammed

It is a illegitimate message, Your iPhone is not hacked. It is an attempt to steal your identify or money. Make sure you have not accidently installed any suspicious profiles on your iPhone.

An iPhone is as good as un-hackable. It is very costly and time consuming to hack an iPhone. This is clearly a scam. If I had spent a ton of money and time hacking someone, I wouldn’t tell them I had done so! I would conduct my business, and farewell!

Apple designed iOS, from the beginning, to lock down applications to a very great degree. Their ability to interact with each other is much more sharply constrained than, say, the ability of Windows or Mac applications to interact with each other.

I won't say that it's absolutely impossible to hack an iPhone; that there are no bugs in the security. However, the chances that messages like this come from a phishing criminal rather than from a hacker, or even a script kiddie, are probably about 99,999 to 1.

Saegzz wrote: "...I’m fascinated by the theory that iPhones are un hackable. Why are they so hard to hack?"

Saegzz ~ See:

Apple Platform Security

Use the built-in security and privacy protections of iPhone

...Found by searching Apple's Knowledge Base.

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How can you be so sure they weren’t hacked?

Good point. Why tell the person that they’ve been hacked? I’m fascinated by the theory that iPhones are un hackable. Why are they so hard to hack?

Good security. Try it, and you’ll see. You can try to hack my iPhone; I give you permission.

If an iPhone isn’t Jailbroken, the chances of it being hacked are zero (0).