iPhone locked due to illegal activity

Ok but is this an actual virus?

That same message about illegal activity showed up on my sister’s phone and it told her to call a number and she did. Some Indian guy in a very loud call center answered the phone and told her, her phone was being hacked and that it would cost $100 to fix it. When my sister said that she couldn’t pay that, the guy said, “Have a nice day,” and hung up. After that she just went to her settings, cleared all her safari data, and the problem was fixed. I hate scams so much.

A less disruptive solutions - you don't have to delete your whole history - is to quit safari and using force touch on the icon open a new tab. Then you can access your history and swipe delete the malicious urls. Then you can make carefully sure the when you tap on show tabs the bad ones are not there any more. If for some reason they are still there, just very carefully closed them tapping on the X button of each tab. Do not select any of them just directly tap on their X button and close them.

Double click the Home button and swipe Safari upwards. Go to Settings/Safari and clear History and Website Data. Open Safari and test.

Safari - Clear the history and cookies on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Safari website data on your iPhone or iPad - How to clear

Go into settings, click on safari, scroll down and click on advance, click on web data click on remove all website data. It closes the windows so you can start over.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

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You have to clear the cache. If you're quick, you can close out of safari and when you come back in, quickly hit the minimize button and X out. You can also hit the privacy button on the bottom left if you just need to get on safari right away. The issue usually develops on either or. Ultimately, you want to go into settings --->safari--->clear the history and website data. To prevent further issues, stop looking at **** on your phone. Hope this helps. Sorry to call you out on the **** but clearly there's a reason I know that 😊

Darn I wish I’d read you were Solution first. I deleted my entire web history not only from this iPad but for all my devices. It’s a real pain. I hope to bump your answer up to first position. Thanks for it anyway I’ll know next time now though I hope there’s never a next time

My issue was a litte different than the person who you messaged, I was trying to watch a movie on my phone and it said warningvirusaletcall. Even after restarting my phone it did not work, but i did what you wrote and my safari is working again! Thanks you very much🙂

The website is a scam to try to get you to call them and (ultimately) give them your credit card.

They trick you into thinking something is wrong with your phone by exploiting bugs in the JavaScript support in the safari browser.

Quit safari, reset your web history, or... just turn off javascript and you can go in and kill the page.

Apple really should fix this, as it's a pretty embarrassing thing that scammers can completely hijack control of the web browser so trivially.

No. It is a trick using a website to deliberately confuse and lockup the browser on your phone. This is a scam designed to scare you into calling the number. Then they will ask, intimidate and finally threaten you to give them money or face some kind of dire penalty/outcome.

Apple should really fix Safari to prevent this sort of nonsense.

This just happened to me. I tried everything. THE ONLY THIS THAT WORKS: is the apple recommend one

Go into settings, click on safari, scroll down and click on advance, click on web data click on remove all website data. It closes the windows so you can start over.

Same happened to me, i tried to exit out but couldn’t, it told me to call or to cancel but that was the only option, i couldn’t do anything on safari. What i did was i refreshed safari but closing it out then i opened it back up and pressed those 2 overlapping squares on the bottom right to see the other tabs i had opened, but the. it would say i would have to call again. So i closed safari again, and quickly went to another tab, then now i can use safari and i closed the apple support tab. But before i did this, i pressed “call” to try and see it i can close the tab but when i called, nothing happened, i did it again and nothing happened. I just want to know if my information will be exposed or if this is a virus that will affect my phone or information. Am i safe from this? Or should i be concerned?

It's a scam.

Restart your device.

Easiest way to get rid of that is too close out Safari, hard press the Safari icon and choose new tab. From there you can open your tabs and close that page