How to know if we are being spied on by our iPhone and how to fix it

Today we store an enormous amount of information on our iPhones. From health data to the messages we send to other people by going through all our photos. This is more important than ever in this context we have the security and assurance that our data is still ours.

we already know that iPhones cannot have viruses and that it is extremely, very difficult for someone on the outside to compromise them, but there are other ways for someone to spy on us from our iPhone. Luckily, we can easily spot it and fix it quickly.

A very unusual situation that is easy to solve

As we just said, with the exception of ultra-targeted attacks like Pegasus, iPhones are virtually invulnerable to these types of threats. This doesn’t mean that someone could accidentally install an app of dubious legality or, even worse, a configuration certificate that allows a third party to access data of a different kind.

Luckily for us, since we would have installed both an app and a certificate ourselves, Regaining control of the iPhone is as easy as removing it. Let’s look at the two cases in detail. A malicious application can ask us for access to more data than it needs in order to share it with third parties. To detect and fix it, the following steps are required:

1. We open the app settings on our iPhone or iPad.
2. We came in Privacy & Security.
3. We came in contacts, calendar, camera photosetc. and we check which apps have access.
4. These should not simply be disabled to prevent them from continuing to access our data.

If we spot an app that seems suspicious to us, we’ll search for its name in Spotlight and keep it once we find it to choose Delete app and that it disappears from our device.

The second assumption, that of profiling, is clearly much more dangerous. For example, a profile can force all iPhone traffic through a compromised VPN, potentially exposing our passwords. You can also change the settings of some aspects of the phone to facilitate data disclosure. In other words: Never, ever, ever install a configuration profile which we clearly do not trust and which we can verify.

As previously, an oversight on our part in this regard can easily be remedied, because we can uninstall any profile just by following a few steps. Which one? This:

1. We open the app settings on our iPhone or iPad.
2. We came in General.
3. we play along VPN and device management.
4. We went through the list under the Configuration Profiles heading.
5. Anyone we see suspiciously we touch and then select delete profile.

If necessary, we restart our iPhone or iPad. The recommendation here is If we don’t know why a profile is installed, we remove it immediately. The use of these profiles is very rare, although it’s more common in the business world, when in doubt it’s probably best to be cautious.

covered these two fronts, The likelihood of an iPhone being compromised is exceptionally low. In any event, as we have just seen, it is at our discretion not to accept applications, emails, messages, links and other similar types of material from untrustworthy sources. When in doubt, let’s think and ask that the security of our data is in our hands.

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by David Bernal Raspall.

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