Finding auto scan on my iphone 13. Infected, need to know what to do. I have no money to bye any apps

my iPhone 13 keeps telling me that my auto scan is off and that my phone is infected with the virus like five or six of them. What do I do? I need help and I cannot afford to buy an app. and I need to know where auto scan is on my phone please it’s an iPhone 13.

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Posted on Dec 18, 2023 11:55 AM

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Posted on Dec 18, 2023 12:02 PM

It is a phishing message, spam. Ignore it, there is no auto scan, and as stedman1 has stated, there is no virus capable of infecting the iPhone.

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Dec 18, 2023 12:18 PM in response to 1122apple

There's no such thing as auto scan for detecting malware, so it's impossible for it to be on or off.


The only two such items that use that term at all are Notes, which lets you auto scan a document with the phone's camera. The other is a third party app in the App Store actually named AutoScan, that has nothing at all to do with scanning for malware, and only runs on an iPad.


And here's another topic about the same scam messages.

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Finding auto scan on my iphone 13. Infected, need to know what to do. I have no money to bye any apps

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