How to stop my iPhone from being hacked?

If what you report here is as claimed (and I’ll reserve judgement), then you are being targeted with exploit tooling worth multiple millions of dollars, and with individual exploit chains worth millions, and tooling more commonly used for espionage, and for access to those people and organizations of interest to governments and government agencies.

Accordingly, your entire current approach here will seemingly be less than successful, if what you write here is what has happened in this case.

You really need to rethink your entire approach here given your reported massive value to your attackers, and you will absolutely need digital forensics and a detailed review of your entire approach to your own security.

And to what data you maintain, and with what communications equipment you have with, too.

Based in what you’re reporting, you’re far beyond the help that can be offered here. Or by anybody absent digital forensics, device access, and a detailed discussion with you. (That review is also not going to be cheap.)

And as this has reportedly been ongoing for a year, whatever the issue here—whether the involvement of very expensive exploit tooling, or maybe the issue here is something else entirely—it’s just not going to change with this posting, or with your current approach.

I_see_green_elephants wrote:

lol. You wanna see analytic logs ? Encryption files? Email logs? Phone records? My home security footage? Router logs? iCloud login history? What would you like me to post here? Come see me or better yet I’ll come to you

All that tells me is that you have suspicions, or maybe have circumstantial evidence at best, have a wide range of alleged compromises across a variety of products, and have not identified anything conclusive.

And until you can wade through and distill all that—until you can provide better evidence of a breach—these discussions go nowhere.

Forum postings seeking free remote forensics help puts you in competition with everybody else with nothing past suspicions and the ability to post screenshots, and most of us already suspect our own gear might be compromised. Assemble your evidence. Build your case. That evidence might be based on canary trap, or might be a canary token, or might something else entirely. Otherwise, the same feedback you’ve been getting will likely continue: update, reset, re-secure, etc.

Unfortunately it’s not remaining this simplistic. What if not only the entity is not only able to obtain entry to your Apple ID but also potentially cloning your devices information and recreating in so many locations also using screen mirroring that there is no way to move faster as one person, to change passwords when they can see what buttons are pushed or better yet alter settings for their device without me being able to see their information because it’s a clone of the device I have?

I_see_green_elephants wrote:

lol. You wanna see analytic logs ?

Nope, I just want you to actually read the post I made above. If your time shown on your post here is showing the incorrect time, you have not set your time zone correctly for this forum. No hacking involved. No conspiracy involved. If all your other evidence is based on your basic misunderstanding of facts, I do wish you luck with your endless quest for a boogieman.

Going through the exact same thing. Multiple devices (this is the 5th time). What I have gathered is that my devices precise identifiers are reached and cloned somehow? It’s pinging my devices copied ID and likely although I am unable to see it, pinging satellites all over the globe so that it becomes nearly impossible to locate the source of the problem. I can’t get into my old email, phone number or anything of the like. It has become impossible as they can change settings as if they are me as well so how does one regain ownership of their own identity? Tech has advanced quickly, which is amazing…unfortunately the ones who needed it took advantage and has moved faster than the general public leaving our security and cyber safety at risk as the securing features are not as advanced as some of the AI currently on the market. When collaborating between human intelligence in this regard and AI, it’s seemed unstoppable and left me with a complete and total loss in life of everything I ever worked for due to identity fraud.

Betrayedbysomeoneclose wrote:

How do I reset my phone even has my ps connecting to the ppl involved I have went thru just as many sadly enough I believe is a home phone and nothing connected to u

No computer:

• How to factory reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Safety Check:

• Personal Safety User Guide - Apple Support

Contact with a victim support organization from a safe phone elsewhere, if that’s an option for you.

Lost4nowgr8 wrote:

Here we go…why is my post suddenly displaying the incorrect time zone?

Because you have not set the correct time zone within your forum preferences.

As this is a tech support forum, I prefer to post factual information. How you interpret that information is up to you.

All it would take is changing your apple password. If someone is accessing your device remotely they would need your apple account login information. Changing the password would prevent them from gaining access. You can also see what devices are connected to your account by logging in to appleid.apple.com and remove any devices that aren't yours.

That's not really possible. The other person would need to know your Apple ID credentials, device passcode, and have access to your device. Then, they would need to jailbreak your device and install some kind of software. If you believe that to be the case, which is improbable, factory reset your device.

When forced, even those you love and the closest people in your life, get desperate and will take desperate measures. No matter how many times I reset, it continues to happen. Once it happened once, this has happened continuously through 5 other devices. I’m baffled…not sure how to just negotiate peace and end the suffering. My credit shot, career lost, marriage ended, friends don’t understand, family doesn’t believe me. 😖🤯🫠😭

I_see_green_elephants wrote:

Well, you make some very valid points but sometimes we can’t see the Forrest for the trees. If there’s a way in, there’s a way out my friend. Was simply hoping to hear from more with the same problem as it’s not quite as uncommon as what most think. But I fully get your reserve and doubtful judgement as I’ve heard it from many until they see it for them selves.

Based on available information, it is uncommon, and targeted. Very much so.

And without intending offense, consider how your approach here will be interpreted.

You lack evidence. If you had evidence, this thread would be very different.

In various of these threads, I’ve looked through piles and piles of screenshots of, well, nothing, and found, well, nothing. Others have looked, too.

As for differentiating your case, you’re unlikely to get somebody to perform a security review and digital forensics (for free). Not without initially providing them with some convincing evidence; some indication of a technical compromise. And not without device-level access. Lots of people want free forensics help. Effectively unlimited numbers of folks. Which means you get to learn more about your own case and your own situation and forensics and evidence, and how to present that to others.

I’m aware of vanishingly few around here that actually have been exploited, out of all of the posted reports.

Nope. That's not possible.

Perhaps you should provide details about what you're experiencing rather than speculating that the improbable has happened. Then, someone may be able to provide assistance.