My iPhone has been hacked, what to do?

Been hacked. The notice comes from errolandtessa. What do I do?

I clicked on a photo of a qr code I scanned for instructions to use products on my new iphone. The message came up immediately, tells me all operations are being tracked. Below is a familiar white strip saying to open the link in the app store, which I've not done.

Now what?


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iPhone 14, iOS 17

Posted on Feb 13, 2024 3:53 PM

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Posted on Feb 13, 2024 4:05 PM

Restart your phone. As long as you have not jailbroken your phone, it cannot be hacked. There is no iPhone message from Apple that will come up saying all of your operations are being tracked and it would make no sense for a hacker to announce that they are tracking you unless they want money or personal account information from you. If the QR code opened up a website, you can just navigate to a different site.


As long as you did not give them your Apple ID/Password, there is nothing else you need to do.

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Sep 21, 2024 10:19 PM in response to Mac Jim ID

I beg to differ I am on my eight iPhone, three brand new 13s and five iPhone 15 Pro maxes three ultra watch twos and 26 iCloud accounts as well as 14 phone numbers since March 13 24 and it is now September 20 of 24 and I assure you I have reset re-send hundreds of passcode passwords into Apple every week to do a factory reset averaging 8 to 10 hours a day fighting my phone oh and two androids all hacked by my soon to be ex-husband! It is absolutely possible for an iPhone to be hacks

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