How can I detect if my iPhone 17 has been hacked or mirrored remotes?

Directly hacking an iOS device is possible, but requires special, nation state developed software that costs a bare minimum fee of $250,000 to infect ONE device. Do you have anything on your phone that would be worth that much money to obtain?

There briefly (a couple of weeks ago) was a JavaScript hack that could infect a device just by visiting a site that had the script on it. Apple quickly released a fix for that. So if your OS is fully updated, you cannot be infected that way.

Much more common would be someone guessed, or learned both your Apple ID and password. With that, they can login to your account from any other device and see everything you do. Photos, email, messages, contacts, etc.

Go to Settings. At the top, tap on your user name. Scroll to the bottom. Do you see any devices that do not belong to you? If so, remove them to kick these unknown users out of your account. Immediately change your password so they cannot log back in.

First, you need to stop reading the mountain of nonsense you see on the internet. You can easily (too easily) find all kinds of sites describing iOS/macOS viruses. All of these - literally, every one of them - are lies. There are no viruses that can affect any Apple device.

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A mirrored remote, or clone, would require copying the SIM for your phone to another so they both respond to the same calls. This is not easy to do. And your cellular provider would want to know why two IMEI numbers are responding to the same account.

Per Mac Jim ID, no one can remotely control your microphone or camera. No one. Period.

Even you initially can't access your account from your iPhone after you change the password. Any attempt to do so will cause iOS to ask you for the password since the previous one it was using would now be wrong.

"How can I detect if my iPhone 17 has been hacked or mirrored remotes?: How do I know if my iPhone 17 has been hacked or mirrored remotes and is barely detectable?"

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Based on aa recent-personal experience...

Resetting this:

As for remote hacking (not jailbroken, upon purchase), the DarkSword Access is an infuriating tool being used out there. Look at your screen seeing if selecting items on its own. I has this occur to me, and then only way around was to reset this to Factory Settings, without backing it up before doing so(though I could have backed it up, if I so chose).

1. Go to: Settings
2. Tap: General
3. Tap: Transfer or Reset iPhone
4. Tap: Erase All Content and Settings
5. Tap: Continue
6. Proceed from there, if necessary.

”Barely detectable” is detectable, so what symptom or issues or errors are you encountering?

There are numerous scams adverts with scam claims here, too.

The “pervert” scam spam was widespread a while back, for instance.

• He cannot access your Microphone remotely or even your Camera.
• If you don't have any other devices logged into your account using the steps provided by Kurt Lang, then your account is not being used. If they knew your password before, they no longer have access to your account after you changed your password. Even with access to your account, they would not be able to access your Microphone remotely.

asprovidence wrote:

If the PFA is similar to restraining orders, they’re public record and can find them online if the court has an online portal. Other ways like mutual friends, etc.

What does this have to do with hacking or not hacking an iPhone? Even with a court order an iPhone cannot be hacked. As the FBI discovered years ago when they wanted the content of a terrorist’s iPhone. Ultimately they were able to, but only because they had physical possession of the iPhone and it had to be disassembled to remove the memory chips, which cost them about $1,000 to an Australian professional cybersecurity firm. And Apple immediately fixed the vulnerability that made it possible.

asprovidence wrote:

If the PFA is similar to restraining orders, they’re public record and can find them online if the court has an online portal. Other ways like mutual friends, etc.

There are unfortunately many ways to go wrong with disappearing, whether or not a protection from abuse (PFA) order or restraining order is in place, and — as was mentioned in a previous reply — a PFA or restraining order isn’t particularly tied to exploiting or detecting sn exploit of an iPhone. Could you elaborate how a PFA is involved with device exploitation or exploit detection here; where I’ve gone wrong?

If you paid attention to OP's most recent comment, it's relevant.

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If the PFA is similar to restraining orders, they’re public record and can find them online if the court has an online portal. Other ways like mutual friends, etc.