How to remove a virus from my iPhone?

How to fix my pine if there is a virus


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Original Title: Clarita31

iPhone XR, iOS 18

Posted on Oct 4, 2025 7:56 PM

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Posted on Oct 4, 2025 8:29 PM

If your iPhone isn't jailbroken, there are NO viruses which can infect an iPhone. Why do you think you have one? If you got a scam message saying your phone is infected and you need to contact someone to buy some service or tools, it's a total scam. Ignore and block them.

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Oct 4, 2025 9:36 PM in response to Clarita31

Here is how to properly clean your Apple product of viruses: How to clean your Apple products - Apple Support


iPhone includes built-in malware defenses.


As for the widespread pop-up advertisements making false claims — lying — about viruses, those are advertisements, and not diagnostics.


Websites cannot scan your iPhone for malware. If they could scan — malware scans are deeply intrusive operations — they’d just steal everything directly, and not bother with the lies about viruses and hackers.


Scam Pop-ups, Scam Viruses, Scam Receipts… - Apple Community


There is no virus here, no hacker, and no malware. The advertiser lied.

Oct 4, 2025 8:48 PM in response to Clarita31

As above unless jail broken (which no one should do in my opinion) it’s not infected.

Check for:

  • wrong Apple ID logins
  • logins through a different browser
  • a new app that you’ve come back to and it’s logged you in through their preferred client eg chrome, safari or their own
  • reset your password


I only use wifi at home under a hidden network on a non teleco provided modem Wifi isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.


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