iPhone hacked. Serious privacy concern-location request
My iPhone has been hacked and had its software modified I can only assume from the following:
I was just on the phone with 800-MY-APPLE on speaker and using my phone while waiting on hold for 10-15 minutes to ask about the 400th Mac that I recently purchased. So as I'm on hold I receive a called labeled as "No Caller ID" and at the same time notice the compass needle (arrow icon) in the top righthand corner of my screen indicating that something was requesting my location. I always enable this less common setting on every iPhone.
So I go to look at the Apps and System Settings that have recently requested my location to find which one had the purple arrow icon indicating it had recently requested my location. No apps or system services had a purple arrow. Again nothing had a purple arrow saying that it had requested my location recently. This was immediately after the No Caller ID call had been forwarded to voicemail.
AppleCare of course provided no insights or advice and told me to take a screenshot basically. Oh and to hire a professional to evaluate my device and the software on it which is still under warranty. Considering the nonsense I've been told just the other day and that most people believe about malware not being a problem with any Apple device, I'd be under the impression that this is something Apple would, say for reasons of negating liability, be motivated to attempt to at least investigate. The advisor sounded like they didn't want to file a request for technical assistance because it was too much paperwork with the timestamps and all lol. So an unknown process requested my location at the same time as I get a call from No Caller ID. I get these calls every single day without fail between 11-2. Same thing used to happen with call from numbers crowd source block lists identified as scam/spoofed/odd live person harassment or vulgar calls. Is there some psychopath hacking iPhone to call people and say weird things?
It gets weirder.. my previous iPhone which was obtained from an Apple Store in person had several new features I never had previously experienced. When I did a force reset of the device it would display what looked like a single line of dead pixels horizontally across 3/4 or so of the screen somewhere around the middle of the device but this typically moved locations and changed sizes and maybe even was vertical a few times. It was always in-between when the OS seemed like it had shutdown the screen functionality and when the actual backlight hardware electricity went dark/off. It never got better or worse and this went on every single time it was force reset for the entire 4.5 months I had the device and never at any other time like a regular shutdown. I clearly remember it happening the very first time I force reset the phone only 20 minutes after they pulled it out of a box and handed it to me in the Apple Store. Must have been hardware glitch I thought.
So my current iPhone which I got 10 days ago from Apple in an Apple Store was doing the exact same thing. It didn't at first but something like 12-24 after having set it up as a new device it started. Every single time I force reset it. Until the other day I called Apple Care and spoke to them for over an hour about the problem in detail. I was told to reset the device and set it up as new. I never did this since I got busy and can only address these constant issues for so many hours a day. I noticed several hours later that this issue mysteriously resolved and has not returned. I'll repeat I did absolutely nothing to my phone to address it at any point.
And stranger.. My iPhone had an issue where one day the front facing camera just stopped working. It hadn't been damaged or dropped or gotten wet or saw anything that might have offended it such an extent. At the same time I believe the microphone stopped working except on speaker and the earphone speaker stopped working. Not muffled or poor quality just dead no sound whatsoever from either. Just today the AppleCare person told me that my current iPhone the front facing or back camera are dead and they can't reach the sensors. They work perfectly fine though.
It continues..So I just went to sign into Apple Communities by clicking support after typing in apple.com in safari on my phone and wasn't asked for my 2 factor authentication. I know I never clicked "trust this browser" since I always click "Don't Trust this Browser" because I believe my backups have been migrated to make a cloned copy of my iPhone for authentication purposes to commit identity theft by the documented AgentX advanced malware that easily transmits to other nearby devices by awdd or Bluetooth PAN etc.
I couldn't get the Post link to come up anywhere and after clicking some picture I figured would bring me back to the page with the link I was asked to enter my username and password about a minute after logging in just before. This time it did ask me to complete two factor authentication. Just to be clear, I was logged into my account and could see details unique to the account and my username displaying just like it ordinarily would.
My previous iPhone after the front facing camera, microphone and speaker used in handset mode went silent, sounded like "I was in a tunnel" or "very far away" according to everyone I spoke to. Even more unusual my new iPhone is doing the exact same thing but this time in both speaker and handset but the speaker one now sounds "very far away" and the handset sounds a little muffled. I had the previous iPhone checked in an Apple Store for water damage and was told none of the indicators had changed color. These three parts are all on opposite sides of the phone so it seems odd anyway that any physical damage would kill all 3 simultaneously and there was no physical damage done to the phone.
There's an unknown process on my current phone triggering analytics reports.
Awdd is triggering frequently crash reports that also say buildtype:"User". I do not use handoff.
My previous phone showed the back facing camera operating blurred in the background of my lock screen. I had not recently used my camera but in any case the phone lock was requesting my password indicating the phone was locked and should be displaying the correct background image which also had not been changed.
My current phone just had the flashlight operating which I turned on. After the screen locked it would not show the screen at all no matter what button I pushed. Just black as if it was off with the backlight on bright the entire time. This went on for at least half an hour until I finally force reset it.
My location almost always was showing as a location on the other side of the country. It's been slightly more accurate since in the last week but it goes threw periods of being closer than much further away. It was explained to me that this is just the location my carrier was using but that is a poor attempt at nonsense since I mostly use my computer and wifi and no hops on the route have an IP address geolocation similar to the one displayed.
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS Sierra (10.12.5), null