Why did my iPhone beep and say “scanning your device”

The same thing happened to me tonight. I was reading an article when I got 2 beeps and "scanning" message. How do we find out what this is? It doesn't feel safe to use my iPhone until I get more information.

Why am I getting so many “Scanning your device” interruptions on several of my iPhone apps while in use?

I don’t have a screenshot because I immediately restart my device to get rid of it before it follows through.

Is Apple doing this?

Thank you for your help.

Mine just did the same thing after visiting an SF Chronicle in the Google app.

Yes that’s what mine said! What is it?

Every reply is just confirming the same problem. Has anyone replied with an answer yet?

Went to click on a story about a 25,000 pyramid then my phone beeped loudly twice then I checked and it said “your device is being scanned”

It’s been happening to me lately too while reading news articles from iPad. Happened just now on the NY Post web site so I screen recorded it. Didn’t beep this time but it usually beeps, and continues beeping even after exiting the post. Here are a couple screen shots of what pops up, it’s quite alarming especially when beeping occurs.

The same thing happened to my wife who was scrolling through her news feed in the Google iOS app. A “Scanning your device” media track was launched and played without any explicit action on her part. Seems like a browser exploitation, but unclear what the goal is.

Same here. I was just on Google apps searching when I received two beeps with “scanning device” this is SUPER suspicious.. I believe it tied to Google app?

edit: I CAN CONFIRM after closing the Google app this message goes away.

i feel that something malicious has happened.. anyone have insights?

I just had the same thing happen. 2 beeps, pulled my notification bar down and I see "Scanning your Device" in a media style widget, with volume control and a time countdown, then switched back to whatever song was up next in the media widget. I saw where it's a scam, and that's how the sound was played. Very confusing.

My wife clicked on a legitimate news article, and she got "Scanning your device" with an action of a red line, and then it quit. Is this just cookies being sent to the news article creator of the new article, or is her phone information being copied and compromised? Scary!

No answer yet.

Same with me tonight i’ve had the latest update but that was creepy.

my phone wasn't even turned on and i got the notification. I just wanna know why and what it means.

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I just had this happen to me and landed here. I thought it was an amber alert or something, but no notification. Then when I swiped down I saw a media player display that said “device being scanned” just as described here by others.

Yeah, it’s an advertisement. Not malware. No scanning, either.

If a scammer could scan, they’d skip the pretend-to-scan step, and just steal everything directly!

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The audio controls are because the advertisement is offering an audio file.