I am suddenly seeing crypto photos in my phone that I did not take. Not sure how this is happening. What can I do to protect myself?

Same happened to me - apparent screenshots of crypto trade prices and trade confirmations. Looking at the photo info, it looks like they’ve been imported from WhatsApp. It appears that there was some spam “Cryptocurrentcy Learning Group” chat on my WhatsApp conversations that I was somehow added to. I deleted that chat and am uninstalling WhatsApp for now. Hopefully that solves it.

Mac@theBeach wrote:

These pics and more appeared. I found crypto group and deleted Whatsapp and then, a week later, a $38,000+ charge was made on my card from Sao Paolo. Related?

That sounds like something you should report to law enforcement.

What do you mean by "Crypto Photos"?

Where exactly are you seeing these photos?

Is this used iPhone by any chance?

Are you using iCloud Photos?

Do you share your Apple ID with anyone?

Please explain clearly and in as much detail as possible what is happening and someone may be able to advise.

Okay, this is happening to me too. Over the past couple days dozens such crypto transaction records have appeared on my iPhone X in my Photos. I do not trade crypto. Airdrop is turned except for Contacts, and I have not been within range anyway.

markhutch, your images don't appear to be in the Photos app. The original poster was asking about pictures appearing in the Photos app. In that case it would be useful to click on the "i" button and see what it says.

I have the same exact issue. This series of pictures kipping appear in my photo library...

Never visit any cripto website and never interested on this specific topic...

How can be solved?

Thank you,

Gianni.

Have you checked iPhone's Settings>Privacy&Security>Photos to see what apps have requested access to your Photos Library? You may also check Settings>Privacy&Security>Camera. Games may have access that you didn't know about-- just make sure the list is what you think it should be. I just looked at mine, and there's stuff there I never heard of!

Gianni! have you experienced it since then?

The same thing happened to me on November 17.

Since then I deleted the crypto junk photos, but they reappeared after 1 week.

I restricted access to the programs and deleted e.g. the Binance app.

The photos appeared again yesterday. Now I disconnect the internet from my phone, do they still appear? I am completely helpless because so far no one - not even Apple - can help.

I had something similar happen to me, tracked it down to WhatsApp; I had been added to a group message thread by a stranger and they had sent lots of pictures in between text advertising their crypto “services” (ie scam). I removed myself from and deleted the group message and took away WhatsApp ability to access my photos (via the settings : privacy and security : photos).

I have seen the same thing happening. Here are just two of the un-asked for 'photos' that appear in my "Recent" album. Note the aitmld.com site. Never visited!

I checked and I modify some access from full to limited. Lets see if this change.

Thank you for the suggestions Richard,

Gianni.

I am receiving drip to pictures also, it seems to me it is when I save a picture someone sends me in a text and it adds the crypto pictures to it.

Do you mean that photos are adding themselves my iPad is linking with my old iPad

I’m suddenly seeing crypto photos in my phone. How are they getting there?