Why did iPhone beep and say "Scanning your Device"?

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It just happened to me as well. I was reading an article online. Twice while trying to read it the page opened another page. After the second time my iPhone started beeping and this showed up in notifications. When I push play it’s the beeping sounds.

Mine just did the same thing APHoliday experienced

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.

Did you happen to get any answers regarding this? I’m curious as it happened to me yesterday.

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”

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

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.

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

No answer yet.

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.

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!

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

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.