iphone contacted malware

iPhones and iPads cannot be infected with malware/trojans/viruses.

HiImZech wrote:

may I have your phone number so that I can send you the malicious link? you can click on and see if your phone gets infected as well.

Do you honestly think anyone here would give a complete stranger their phone number, let alone receive something from you that is possibly malicious??? Use your brain.

I think not.

He was being facetious, in response to a ill-considered reply. Heed your own advice.

simbonding wrote:

He was being facetious, in response to a ill-considered reply. Heed your own advice.

He may have been intending to be facetious, however, AmishCakes response was not ill-considered.

stating that iphones and ipads cannot be infected does not help OP's situation and in fact deters helpful people from actually looking into it

Pretty sure it became news that there was a malware that DID manage to infect iphones just recently

james_del_rosario wrote:

stating that iphones and ipads cannot be infected does not help OP's situation and in fact deters helpful people from actually looking into it

Pretty sure it became news that there was a malware that DID manage to infect iphones just recently

There was a particular unicode character that, sent in a text message could cause problems. This was not malware. It was a bug in the iPhone's programing.

There are currently no known viruses that can infect an un-jailbroken iOS device.

Thanks for the explanation Meg. I wasnt quite sure about the details of that unicode incident.

I dont believe there are any known viruses. But there not being malware in unjailbroken iphones in the form of apps doing malicious things like sending and taking information might be a little optimistic.

I posted another unrelated problem also in the forum with regard to another topic with pictures replicating and filling up my camera roll.

If its not malware then, must be some really bad programming

Go to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data

Honestly that doesnt make a lot of sense.

Have you restored and set up as new?

Also dont log into WIFI and see if the issue persists. Your router could possibly be infected if its on both your phone and ipad.