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Random beeping with link popping up

So I was sitting at home, and randomly my phone (iphone 6s +) starts beeping with a really weird and creepy high pitch, never ever heard anything like this before, and pops up a "message" on the screen with a link. (the beeping sounded something like this just shorter beeps and it was constant 10 HOUR BEEPING - YouTube)

I managed to take 1 screenshot before it stopped after 15 sec. User uploaded file
after it stoped I was pretty confused but went on with watching tv, and literally 3 mins later it hapened again, same thing just this time with another link, and I managed to take 3 screenshots now so the whole link can be seenUser uploaded fileUser uploaded fileUser uploaded file

So the second time it was a different link and I actually swiped the "message" with the link right, to see what happened, but it just got into the menu and nothing happened...


Now I have to tell you that my phone never ever did anything wierd untill a few weeks ago when I upgraded the newest IOS...
I bet a lot of you will think that im crazy for believing that this has to do with anything, but my phone always worked perfectly and since the IOS upgrade it freezes alot, even my battery is doing weird things like loosing 1% charge/second (no this is not a joke) and stuff like that. Last week I had my phone on 95% and 10 min later it was on 17% and dropping 1% / second, untill it reached 4% and then it stayed on 4% for 2-3 hours....
Sometimes my phone opens the menu really slowly, or it doesnt even open, and last time it had no sound until I restarted the whole phone. Really weird and this all since the latest update.


What Can this be?

Is this some kind of virus? anyone had similar ?

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 11.1, .

Posted on Nov 9, 2017 12:07 PM

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Posted on Nov 9, 2017 12:09 PM

My impression is that a webpage that you have open in Safari is serving a rogue ad. The notification you're seeing on the lock screen is normal. It will appear when audio is playing and will tell you where it is coming from (in this case, the link shown in your screenshots). Try closing all of your tabs in Safari, and wait a while to see if the problem occurs.

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Nov 9, 2017 12:09 PM in response to grigorigo

My impression is that a webpage that you have open in Safari is serving a rogue ad. The notification you're seeing on the lock screen is normal. It will appear when audio is playing and will tell you where it is coming from (in this case, the link shown in your screenshots). Try closing all of your tabs in Safari, and wait a while to see if the problem occurs.

Random beeping with link popping up

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