I get a pop-up window asking "Do you want to download "occ" in my Safari browser

So, I have spoken to the escalation team. They were able to see it happening real time on my device. They are bumping this up to the engineers. It hapoens on Chrome and Safari. News type sites. Post iOS 18 update.

There’s nothing that basic troubleshooting can do so PLEASE DON’T FACTORY RESET IF A SUPPORT PERSON TELLS YOU TO RIGHT NOW. 😨

They were largely unaware of the problem because I’m assume the gross majority of people did not reach out to them. (I did show them the number of folks here via screen-share).

I will be contacted on Tuesday after the engineers have taken a tinker. Hopefully they can fix it fast.

I was given a direct contact to the escalation team member in case something else pops up.

So! Until then the directive from Apple is: Do not download anything from a pop up, avoid those news sites for the time being if you can. (Don’t wanna accidentally click).

I’ll loop back Tuesday. 👋🏽

I am having the same popup?!?! Any thoughts Apple??

I’m chatting with an apple support person now as this was freaking me out. It seems as if it’s connected to news type sites. The support person is looking into but they have nothing on record as of yet. I’ll circle back if I’m given any useful info.

I’ve gotten it at least 5 times tonight, usually when browsing local/national news sites.

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 17.6.1

Same here, but on iPad.

Same on iPad Pro (6th gen) on iPadOS 17.6.1. So, Apple, have enough people asked you about this now that you might provide an answer?

I’m getting the same pop-up and I’m running 17.6.1.

Same. This has been reported on the discussions since early Sept…why no answers yet?

I started getting it last night, I was looking at news. Now it’s nearly constant. iPhone XS Max running 16.1.2, so this isn’t related to phone updates.

Ditto, still on 17.6.1 and this pop up has just started, returning a few minutes after I hit “x” to close window. Most annoying

The support person has asked if I would speak with their escalation team tomorrow (appointment set) but they have said def do not click anything on the pop up (of course) and try to avoid (let it rest) until there has been a directive. So… Hasta mañana I guess.

Same issue. iOS update to 18.0 today. Chrome browser. Not just a popup, immediately attempts to download a file.

I am on an iPhone 12 and just updated to iOS 17.7 and I started getting the pop-up in Safari as well

I just got off the phone with Apple support and was told that they have not had any other calls about this. No resolution but I did get a case ID.

I just got it a few minutes ago on iPhone running iOS 18