why is https://www.iosclean.com showing up on my ipad

Double tap the Home button, then swipe upwards on the Safari preview.

Go to: Settings - Safari - Clear History.

Restart Safari.

1: Open the "Settings" menu on your Home screen. 2: Tap the "Safari" tab on the Settings page. The Safari preferences screen loads. 3: Scroll down the page to the "Security" section. 4: Slide the "Block Pop-Ups" switch to the "On" position. 5: Press the "Home" button to return to your Home screen.

Source(s): Apple Geek

You may be giving answers on how to clear safari, but this is a bug that I have not ever seen since I had an iPan 1. I want to know if there is a worm or software glitch that I can work around this problem and also is Apple aware of this issue? I lost important information because of this issue.

It is a browser hijack from either a compromised website or an infected router. Following the directions above from Stedman1 works (as attested to by the OP) and in no way would result in the loss of any information.

My router is definitely not comprimised and I have been using iOS Safari daily since the first iPad in 2010. How is it that Safari suddenly being comprised by locking up from a hijack? It is an issue to me because I have lost my history of all of the pages I visited related to today's work, I needed this days history. I have 4 iOS devices and 7 Apple Computers. Hijack or not, this is new to me. Can you cite this occurring in the past on iOS? It has never occurred to me or other users in my home business after hundreds of hours on multiple iOS devices. All are up to date on software. This is not a benign issue. I also wanted to add that I had already took the actions as recommended and was able to recover several websites, but this is a new problem to me.

See A Browser Pop-up has Taken Over Safari to learn more about the scam. You can also read the comments, several of which are from iOS users.

(Note that I am affiliated with that site, and some pages contain ads).

Thank you guys very helpful....I did also have to clear the cookies on my ipad to make it happen. It may have just been my ipad sine I use it for work.....FYI

i have the same issue but not on my ios device, it's on my macbook air. i was trying to help someone who had it on their ipad and i typed iosclean in and it has now popped up in safari and has frozen me out. i'm using google for now. i can't clear history on safari because it is greyed out. it did clear the ipad under settings, but not sure what to do next on my macbook. any help would be appreciated...thanks!

See the link I posted... it's mostly for Mac users.