My phone heats up dramatically when certain players are online, even if I am not in the game. It is a group of players within a club.
They seem to know my letters & watch my plays.
Other apps performance is sometimes affected.
How can this have been done?
How can I stop it?
Is there any way to find out who initiated & shared it within the group?
iPhone SE, iOS 18
We have received many reports of Words With Friends 2 causing the iPhone to warm up after one of the latest updates. You are best advised to contact the app developers. If Apple receives enough reports, they will force them to address the issue or risk having their app taken down. But your iPhone most certainly isn't hacked, and definitely not by a third-party app. iPhone apps from the App Store are designed sandboxed, meaning apps cannot access any content on the iPhone outside of its app, such as system settings.
Seems extremely unlikely.
If the game is causing your phone to heat up, and it is not a graphics-intensive game, a likely explanation is that it is coded poorly, with “busy wait” loops instead of sleeping waiting for events. “Busy wait” loops are a very inefficient way to do things and can chew up a lot of CPU power and cause the CPU to generate excess heat.
Which is why software developers are taught to avoid them, or at least to put their programs to sleep for a short time during each iteration of the loop.
It's very very difficult and extremely EXPENSIVE to hack an iPhone. If you think your account in this app has been compromised, change your app password. That really has nothing to do with Apple when it's in a an app not owned by Apple.
Thank you for the information. I will change the password.
Au contraire...several "friends" apparently have been given access to my info...is that even legal? I think they somehow use screen mirroring because they seem to know my tiles & see my word before I hit the play button. Screen mirroring is Apple, I believe. I can't break the connection.
LadyLiberty819 wrote:
Au contraire...several "friends" apparently have been given access to my info...is that even legal? I think they somehow use screen mirroring because they seem to know my tiles & see my word before I hit the play button. Screen mirroring is Apple, I believe. I can't break the connection.
Nope. Not happening. Look for another explanation.
The warming up is just one of the problems. I did read that in an online forum, tho.
Thank you.
Thank you for your information.
LadyLiberty819 wrote:
The warming up is just one of the problems. I did read that in an online forum, tho.
Thank you.
You're welcome. Best of luck to you.
Someone must have plunked down the dough. Also, others in this group also have my private information. Wonderful "friend", right!?!
Words With Friends2 had been hacked on iphone
