Can the iPhone5 be hacked remotely by a hacker?

Kelleyisfromgilbert wrote:

As far as his watch, he always gets my Apple ID and password, I don’t know how, and he remotely connects, just like if you had an iPhone and a iPad under your Apple ID, same concept..

Then your phone is NOT being hacked. Your iCloud account is compromised. Change your password. Use a strong password and set up 2 factor authentication.

If you are engaging a conversation then yes, they are wrong. You are wrong as well.

You can not hack a non jailbroken iOS device for a very specific reason:

The tools to create software for iOS lack the features need to allow someone to hack an iOS device. The software developed for iOS can only be distributed through the App Store.

If you jailbroke your iOS device all bets are off, but if you didn't there were currently two potential hacks that were patched before any credible securities lab in the world found evidence of code that would allow anyone these exploit to compromise iOS anywhere on the web.

if you think your Apple ID has been compromised (which is not a hack btw) see this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204145

You may wish to change your Apple ID log/pass with a complex password you don’t use for anywhere else.

If you share the same or similar log/pass combo with another service (e.g. Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and that service is compromised then anyone with that information simply needs to try the same combo elsewhere

Kelleyisfromgilbert wrote:

Everyone seems to think an iPhone can not be hacked, that’s total bs, mind was hacked, and no one knows the answer to the question,

Unless your iPhone has been jailbroken, the possibility that it could be hacked is so small as to be about the last thing one considers when troubleshooting. It is far more likely that your Apple ID was compromised.

I have my own account, never shared anything with this man, he is a complete stalker who keeps breaking into my phone, he remotely does it from his Apple Watch, I’ve changed my Apple ID, he is getting in some how and he doesn’t have to be close with his watch, stop thinking it’s IMPOSSIBLE... it’s not!

An Apple Watch simply does not have the capability to do what you're suggesting. Apple Watches can only be connected to one phone and, in order to do that, you have to have physical access to the phone.

You say you've changed your Apple ID password but have you activated two-factor authentication?

Two-factor authentication for Apple ID - Apple Support

If you are being stalked, and your accounts are being broken into, you should contact the police. They will advise you on the proper next steps.

Told me to contact the FBI, or get a private investigator.

As far as his watch, he always gets my Apple ID and password, I don’t know how, and he remotely connects, just like if you had an iPhone and a iPad under your Apple ID, same concept..

And do you know who "he" is? Does he have physical access to any of your devices? Something isn't adding up here.

EXACTLY moienappleuser & applefreak77. You're correct. Your experience and everyone else’s here experiences here seem to match. Everyone keeps describing the same activity but nothing’s being done by Apple? Personally I’ve experienced this at least 2 or 3 years on at least 3 different models. And, actually, I have an iPhone 6. This post WHILE LONG, I think will shock you.

First of all, this is not just a “FB” thing (there’s a lot of entries here because FB is just one of the most common apps/sites). I don’t even have a FB account. It’s global. Almost every other user here DESCRIBES in great detail ALL the ways this malware/spyware is behaving. My post may be a little shocking, but it’s intended to help others and Apple too (and hopefully I’ll benefit too, in the end, by having a more secure phone that doesn’t use itself more than I use it lol). Here goes….

This “phantom” swiping, tapping, texting, dialing, browsing & changing of settings more was happening off & on for maybe a year or two (?)... in retrospect I think even when I had my 4 & 5S. I tried to ignore it as best I could but it’s just gotten worse and worse. So, for the past 6 months or so, I've had the SAME PROBLEM EVERYONE’S EXPERIENCING here on my iPhone 6. Everyone’s just describing DIFFERENT MANIFESTIONS (symptoms) of the SAME DISEASE. The disease is malware / spyware, imo, thru some security flaw in the iPhone. I’ve experiences all these symptoms off & on for the past few years. However, the problem continued and got seemingly worse with time (or started wearing on me lol). So I called Apple (a kick-*** company) and they REPLACED my phone. First let me say: I'm a HUGE fan of Apple, Steve Jobs, and the legacy of high standards that continues. HOWEVER, this is a huge problem that REMAINS UNADDRESSED (unfixed). I WOULD share this stuff on iphone feedback page \ but they have a serious char limit, that this longer message would never make the cut. So here goes a post that's my actual experience. So, I had ALL those same problems that EVERYONE is describing here.

So, I had the problem AT LEAST as far back as my 5S, the again on my iPhone 6. So I called Apple and they sent me a BRAND NEW (replacement warranty) iPhone 6 (same model) … BUT GUESS WHAT?? THE EXACT same behavior started again!!! I kid you not. Very frustrating (the same feeling everyone is trying to convey in their posts here). When I called Apple Support (-1800-MYAPPLE), and spoke with the rep (who was a nice guy), he said (upon asking) that he had indeed seen it before several times, but as I tried to describe it, he sort of kept seeming to talk over me pushing the idea that it might be something between the screen and the circuitry / sensors, aka HARDWARE, specifically, what I found other sides refer to as "the digitizer" (just behind the touchscreen that converts your touch to signals). HOWEVER, from what I'm about to describe next, I STRONGLY DISAGREE. The problem is NOT hardware. And I think you’ll agree, as you READ ON to the end of my post, that it's obviously a SOFTWARE /SPYWARE ..or worse, cyberware or at MINIMUM a security flaw that’s being exploited. Read on if you dare. Now, I don't know if it's one of the "haters/spies" (like korea, china, russia or fbi lol), OR if it's just some jealous gf who intentionally planted something on my phone, but here's MY experiences (similar to most people here ....only with a STRANGE and eery twist! Read on!! The BASIC behavior of this malware / spyware (hey! that's how it acts!! let's be honest and call a spade a spade) is this: 1. I put the phone down (flat or leaning up against something) and it STARTS SWIPING and TAPPING keys and even dialing and going into folders, and AS IF "studying" (spying), and it looks at very sensitive items. It almost taunts you, but I couldn't actually prove it. SO YOU KNOW WHAT? Today I tried many experiments to see what the heck is going on! Actually, for a LONG time, I've felt deep-down that the problem is software, because like moienappleuser stated "junk character and make-sense statements". So...that's what made me start experimenting (in my own stupid way): First, I thought, because of the highly unusual PATTERN of "randomness" (the pattern is that it goes into things and almost like "investigating" or "checking things out"... like simulating human behavior, like too "inquisitive" to be just random and too ANNOYING in its patterns), so I thought definitely NOT hardware! So, figuring SOFTWARE, I started, ONE BY ONE, closing various apps that were open (common ones I use), and all throughout the day (whether it makes sense or not), I'd go into Safari and clear cache and history)---for almost a year now like 20 times a day)...only cuz I don't know better. Of course, MANY times every day I power off my phone and relogin, I logged out of my "less necessary" apps and/or changed passwords and even (me this time) started deleting unnecessary apps. ETC. Anyway, so I kept trying to keep "just the minimum" apps I needed open...but it kept happening, so today, I closed even the last one.... but the problem continued.... and I was stumped! So I was trying to "narrow" down which app might be doing it (I have maybe the typical or around 100 apps in total (just a guess)), and honestly, i couldn't do a "proper" test, where I delete everything and reinstall 1-by-1. I need my apps to survive, for business, etc. OK, NOW CHECK THIS OUT. Today the activity on my phone when I set it down was "crazier" than usual... i mean was so aggressive and out of control, going into apps, dialing, texting etc that EVEN I couldn't IGNORE it. It was like a jealous girlfriend. You ignored her and she got crazier. So, the more I ignored it, the more "crazy" it got (i can't explain it all, but I'll share just THREE things just today that happened): 1. When it wasn't "getting my attention" (terror, lol), it THEN TURNED ON THE FLASHLIGHT (by swiping up and touching the flashlight to drain my battery VERY fast...you can ALWAYS "see" what's happening until ur phone goes auto lock I guess (?)--haven't tested or wouldn't know how to. 2. I could also see it TRYING to go into apps where you have to enter a 4 digit passcode! It tried OVER & OVER & OVER...until I got LOCKED OUT of the app myself!! (delay time)...before it started again! It wasn't like (yeah, I read a little like we all do) "brute force" meaning it didn't look like it was going sequentially or whatever, but it was "persistent". So, lest you think I'm crazy, here's a 3rd and LAST one I'll share with you cuz I'm out of time: 3) during one of it's "mock" or "random" or "junk" characters (true most of the time). READY? Ok, ... WHILE it was keying in RANDOM junk into a random text, I "randomly ADDED" (I inserted the cursor AS it was typing): "i love u" BUT I cleverly added (for my own testing) a HEART EMOJI in place of the word "love", so there were 3 chars: i(heart)u. THEN the spyware/cyberware/whatever continued its "RANDOM" text entries...but I watched closely studying (intently for patterns lol)....I say "lol" because I was shocked when about 15 seconds later (guestimate), it "WROTE BACK" (within the same string of text still and after lots more normal text characters)... a message that included a LOT of emoji hearts (but a different one!)... so whoever (not whatever...and it's NOT hardware!! DUH!!) is doing this is MALICIOUS. I wish I had recorded the screen so I could repeat it for you exactly, but it was something like 10-15 emoji (I think 2 or 3 different emoji hearts all strung together)....like it got "crazy" that it was being "challenged". So, THIS IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. I share it here because i've tried everything else (as you can see) AND I want this to HELP and call ATTENTION to Apple to spend some serious resources to fix this issue. As you can see, it's NOT hardware, it's something malicious and it's (seemingly?) LIVE.

THE ONLY WAY to "STOP" it (temporarily) is to hit the power button and go into "sleep" mode or, I guess until it goes into autolock (per whatever time you input in settings for that)..but then OBVIOUSLY you need to use your phone again usually in a few seconds or minutes if you're a typical, modern user, so to have to CONSTANTLY (when this occurs) go INTO sleep mode JUST to protect yourself (your privacy of your phone) is f'ing annoying. Again, the only reason I write all this is not to be mean or hurtful but to HELP users and to help Apple and to add value to Apple (cuz how could someone not share this experience?), since this is a perfect issue for community and for people to come together and TRY to figure out what app or apps is/are causing this.

NOTHING seems to make a difference. I've experimented with seemingly all settings/various combinations eg cellular on/off and roaming on/off and wifi on/off and airplance mode on/off. I thought (?) at one point that the airplane mode helped...but I think that was just for a while. I have to check again. I even changed my wifi password and my router passwords and keys.

So I have to be truthful to myself: Since, remember, I had this problem BEFORE & AFTER my iPhone 6 replacement from Apple, since the phone arrived (presumably) clean, when I restored from iCloud, we obviously have to consider (right?) that it is one of the apps (or a security weakness that's being exploited by some developers, or maybe even by some spyware that's out there on the market, bought by jealous people... and I should add one eery thing in that vein: I noticed the activity was going on for about an hour or two (?), but when my "i'm not jealous type" gf got home, and parted from her phone ....the problem suddenly stopped. I'm not crazy. I just want this majorly important iPhone issue fixed since it's affecting my life very seriously. I haven't even read past a couple pages here, so I'm guessing that I'm going to read a lot of what I just described (but presented in much smaller pieces). Dear Apple, please bring this to the attention of your top people. I know you have a lot on your plate, but actually, nothing comes before this. This issue should be #1 since, no matter how you cut it, there's obviously a security flaw that's being exploited and wreaking major havoc. Thanks and hopefully you'll fix this ASAP cuz it's affecting me every day and affecting my productivity, peace of mind and (obviously) overall user satisfaction. I like iPhone. I want to stay with iPhone, but, judging from all the smug, snarky and dismissive replies re “butt dialing” and “it didn’t happen” etc by level 9’s here, Apple’s not taking this issue seriously. Instead of FIXING it, it’s DISMISSING it. This is a MASSIVE security flaw. People keep describing this year after year after year. Don’t sidestep the problem. FIX THE PROBLEM, because what everyone’s describing here is a massive breach in security and personal security that’s clearly not only affecting iPhone 5 but also iPhone 6. The problem is NOT the hardware or “a defective touchscreen”. It’s a security malware/spyware that behaves VERY SIMILAR TO what you might see in a faulty touch-screen…only much more malicious and PURPOSEFUL as you can see from the details I’ve shared above. Obviously the software is hacking (accessing) the IOS in ways that NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO. It'll be Apple's job to test (control) all these variables one-by-one to professionally and properly narrow down, then find, the culprit app and/or code and/or security flaw. That's just my take, but an important set of experiences I wanted to share with everyone so that we can GET THIS RESOLVED IMMEDIATELY.

I have read all of these comments and the ones that claim your iPhone can't be hacked are delusional. I watched both my and my daughter's iPhones (5 and 5s) operate themselves. No cables were attached. Whoever was controlling the phone was opening apps, trying to download music, etc. and was also able to prevent me from getting to Settings or turn off the phone. I spent 20 minutes playing games and finally had to do a hard reset then quickly erase the phone. Was probably malware from an app that was downloaded, who knows, but to assert that it was a bad cable or anything else is just nonsense. I would rather be informed and alert than lulled into some false sense of security.

Without prejudice: Yes my ex used to break down and build computers. He had cyber cafes and would reverse the monitor cameras to spy on people using them after they paid a euro in the Bull and bush torrevieja Spain.and take pictures of them and store them on his pc worryingly most of the pictures were of girls aged under 14. Just little girls. So I left him. I saw him after installing satellite TV in cafes in Spain spying on them from from his own PC at home looking in their cafes by reversing the camera in the digital tv's to spy on them or reversing the computer monitor too. He was paranoid people were talking about him that's the main reason. He's bipolarI.I found photos of me on his laptop that he had taken by reversing my web cam at home on my computer so he could access it from his PC at his house. On his PC there were photos of exes where he had done the same and videos of them.

Then he started hacking my phone after I left him and leaving photo evidence that he had on my phone in files. I found out he had remotely added new applications to my phone that allowed him using text to speech and my own applications manager to turn on my phone at night and my Bluetooth and take videos from the camera or photos. Then amused by this he did more research and conspired on the Web to find new techniques. After I left him I moved house I was staying somewhere else for a holiday and he turned up with no knowledge of my whereabouts I asked him how he said my iPhone ip address on my phone and my phone location remotely activated (as my location was off) would tell him where ever I was. He then accused me of being unfaithful yet we were apart I had finished with him. He then showed me my own emails he had downloaded the data from my phone remotely. Even though he did not know the number. Once he tracked me he just sat outside the house at night and switched on my phone while I slept. I went to another computer whizz I found on the Internet he stripped my phone to minimum applications and changed me to a new phone provider and new number. I moved house again.Within 3 months **** my ex had found me and was uploading applications to my phone again. We are now divorced and he is still hacking me. It is impossible to stop it. He reads my texts, my emails, he sends texts messages to Julie my friend from Kathy my friends phone remotely. We are all sick of it how can we get rid of this hacker?

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They are hackers my friend a password is nothing your phone stores your password even if you ask it not to Google stores it chrome stores it. Even if you know how to do that your back up and restore application stores your passwords you have no idea how clever hackers are.

Every day I change passwords and have to check what is storing my input because of my ex. Plus the Police are allowed to just login if they have your email address they don't need a password. If the person hacking knows a sympathetic stupid policeman then bobs your uncle.

I totally believe you because my hacker took over my phone 2 years ago, still has control also of my computers plus he STALKS ME and the sheriffs dept is useless. They don’t believe me and this creep is a coward so he won’t take a chance on getting caught, it all started on Facebook and a scam he is running! Hide ur friends list because that is what him and.

His friends do thousands of fake profiles in ur name and all ur friends.

Madmax64 wrote:

Every day I change passwords and have to check what is storing my input because of my ex. Plus the Police are allowed to just login if they have your email address they don't need a password. If the person hacking knows a sympathetic stupid policeman then bobs your uncle.

More nonsense. the police are just people, people need passwords.

Madmax64 wrote:

They are hackers my friend a password is nothing your phone stores your password even if you ask it not to Google stores it chrome stores it. Even if you know how to do that your back up and restore application stores your passwords you have no idea how clever hackers are.

Clearly you have no idea about what you say.

Have a nice day.

You are incorrect. Hackers can access your home network through the LAN utility on smart TVs and hack everything connected to that network. I know from experience and nobody will convince me otherwise.