Spyware?

Vipre.

I have an iPhone and it has not been jailbroke...

Are you sure? If it were me, I would first change my Apple ID password and then restore the device as new, i.e. WITHOUT your backup. This will make it factory fresh. If it restores properly, you should be OK. If it's been jailbroken, it may not restore properly. Good luck.

I would love to know more about protecting my kids phones from spyware. I purchased all Apple products specifically to prevent my ex from installing spyware on the computer and phones. My son's previous phone was a Driod and my ex installed spyware that could dial in a listen to conversations remotely (I know, it sounds paranoid, but I have proof that it was on his phone). He receintly jailbroke my son's phone and I am trying to figure out what all he truly has access to. Is it possible for him to listen to conversations remotly using some of the spyware listen in this conversation?

Have you read any of this thread?

If it is not jailbroken, the spyware can't be installed.

Allan

He receintly jailbroke my son's phone and I am trying to figure out what all he truly has access to. Is it possible for him to listen to conversations remotly using some of the spyware listen in this conversation?

Possibly, since it was JB. If it were me, I would first change the Apple ID password and then restore the device as new, i.e. WITHOUT the backup. This will make it factory fresh. If it restores properly, you should be OK. Since it's been jailbroken, it may not restore properly. Good luck.

"My son's previous phone was a Driod and my ex installed spyware"

I read it that the Droid had the spyware and not the iPhone

Allan

The previous phone was an Android. The current one is an iPhone, or else she wouldn't be here. At least that's how I read it.

there are no spyware apps for the iphone unless it is already jillbroken

but this may help solve your problem

go to settings general usage and delete any app that you are not using it or any app that you have not download it earlier

Discovering wrote:

... He receintly jailbroke my son's phone and I am trying to figure out what all he truly has access to. Is it possible for him to listen to conversations remotly using some of the spyware listen in this conversation?

Probably. If it's "jailbroken", it ceases to be an iPhone. It's an iPhreak. A FrankenPhone. You need to seek assistance with it elsewhere.

Thank you. Is there a way to prevent a phone from being Jailbroken

Keep it in your personal possession, just as you would a laptop computer or anything else of value. Physical possession of an iPhone, even for a few moments, makes anything possible.

Think of it as you would your wallet. How far do you allow that to get out of your grasp?

Allan

The problem is that when my youngest is with his father, he has access to it. I hate to have to tell him that his dad is putting spyware on his phone and that he needs to not allow him access. I was hoping there was some sort of password-protected "lock" I could put on it.

Discovering wrote:

I was hoping there was some sort of password-protected "lock" I could put on it.

There is.

Settings > General > Passcode.

This should have been on there from day one anyway.

Since it's already been "jailbroken" your best technological solution is to restore it as a new iPhone, which (if successful, and doesn't result in it becoming permanently disabled) will result in removing any privacy-intrusive software that you suspect may be present.

That's it as far as a technological solution goes, but if the iPhone is being repeatedly taken and altered in any manner in which you do not approve, then you must seek a solution that goes beyond the scope of this support forum. An iPhone is a very personal device. Taking possesion of it for the purposes of altering it is personally intrusive at the very least. Arguably, it's theft.