Every phone brand new is hacked right away

I was hacked during a meeting online and ever since then for the past two weeks every phone I get which has been about 3-4 phones gets hacked within minutes of getting to my house, i’ve changed my Internet, changed my phone number three or four times but he’s still in my phone. Apple denies it. I’ve made police reports he remotely controls this phone. It’s an iPhone 16 Pro. He’ll lock me out and Apple has new control over it. I think there should be a lawsuit his access to Photos notes all my personal information contacts and can change anything he wants at any time and it shows my account was in Bangladesh.

iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Feb 23, 2025 10:34 PM

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Posted on Feb 24, 2025 7:30 PM

Everything you have described is accomplished with your Apple Account Password and accessing that information online. It is not done through your phone.

  • You can be locked out of your device
  • They can view and change your Contacts
  • They can change your account information
  • They can access Notes online
  • They can access your Photos online.


Any change on your online account will be reflected on your device. In no way is someone accessing your device remotely. In most cases, simply changing the password on your Apple Account will resolve the problem, but in your case I would recommend creating an entirely new account. Factory Reset your device and set it up as new. You will lose all data and have to add your contacts again, so you may want to at least write those down. For your Photos, if you want to save them, you will need to back them up to another device. All email accounts will have to be added again and you will want to change the passwords on those as well.


Your Accounts may have been compromised, but it is not your device. If you are convinced your WiFi is compromised, then get a different router from your provider.

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Feb 24, 2025 7:30 PM in response to Community User

Everything you have described is accomplished with your Apple Account Password and accessing that information online. It is not done through your phone.

  • You can be locked out of your device
  • They can view and change your Contacts
  • They can change your account information
  • They can access Notes online
  • They can access your Photos online.


Any change on your online account will be reflected on your device. In no way is someone accessing your device remotely. In most cases, simply changing the password on your Apple Account will resolve the problem, but in your case I would recommend creating an entirely new account. Factory Reset your device and set it up as new. You will lose all data and have to add your contacts again, so you may want to at least write those down. For your Photos, if you want to save them, you will need to back them up to another device. All email accounts will have to be added again and you will want to change the passwords on those as well.


Your Accounts may have been compromised, but it is not your device. If you are convinced your WiFi is compromised, then get a different router from your provider.

Feb 25, 2025 10:40 AM in response to Community User

Hacked82 wrote:

My wife and I watched him using a mouse on my device at 2:00am changing setting, a few days later at a Verizon store the manger witnessed it to. They are even going so far as to giving me another iPhone not attached to my account at all untill
we get new WiFi until this completely straighter out.

At worst, you have a failing digitizer. Your device cannot be controlled remotely.

Jun 15, 2025 8:35 AM in response to Community User

There ain’t **** you can do. I’ve been battling this for close to 8 months now. Everything got taken. Everything. And for the first couple months was being taunted and messed with to a malicious severity, that stopped so I’m guessing they got bored. I have talked to 20+ professionals in cyber security and out of the 5 that actually took me seriously said they charged $1000+ an hour to find the hackers and deal with it. No one has that money! I’m still hacked today, after changing phones, router/motem, internet providers, and all new accounts. Didn’t matter, they instantly got in still. Your best bet is to learn how to hack yourself with whatever free time you have and go from there. No one will help you, most will laugh at you. Ive started going to therapy myself cause of the paranoia it has instilled in me. Good luck dude, I hope you find a way out.

Feb 24, 2025 6:57 PM in response to Community User

If my phone is hacked and I come home and connect to my WiFi, a sophisticated and well equipped with the proper equipment can then access my Wi-Fi and all devices attached to that Wi-Fi so new phone or not even with new number as soon as I connected to Wi-Fi in my home, he was able to re-enter my new phone. I’ve already gone through three or four phones now and they’re replacing them for free because they know it’s happening.

Feb 25, 2025 9:49 AM in response to muguy

lol, buddy! You should do some reading up. I admitted that I gave him a code and that’s what allowed him access but he claimed it was for a zoom meeting. I’m a car detailer and he was claiming to do advertising and needed manager access to be able to run adds and campaigns for my business but instead the code was access to my phone. Onc i realized that it was too late he had more control over my account. I appreciate your confidence in Apple but their senior advisors admit this is happening Verizon is aware. Sir if your not a believer that’s ok, but if you don’t believe that Apple can be hacked but the pentagon can?? And once this began they should have shut my account down are you aware that you can actually remove all old id’s and data stored in the cloud that your never told about? So any old accounts or ids with data that you no longer use are still there and can be retrieved by someone who is capable of gaining access to it? I used to believe and never cared if if my phone got hacked but once this hacker sent sandstone information to my clients and friends and picture, scroll through my phone and make physical changes on my device it became a new belief. I’ve spent over $2,000 sense feb5 and more to spend to replace merchandise for my business with new numbers along with logos on my truck. Now regardless if I made a mistake Apple and Verizon should be able to control their software and put a stop to it once it’s brought to their attention. Their advice even their senior advisors is replace all devices and WiFi because they can’t do anything

Feb 25, 2025 9:53 AM in response to Community User

I’m not the only one this has happened to other people have experienced the same experience where a hacker gets into their phone then gets into their Wi-Fi and then no matter what kind of new device they get the hacker can continue getting into the devices, but started off by them getting the phone, which yes, I admit was my mistake But Apple every time I went in there we just reset the phone instead of we need to get you a new EMI number and a new phone number that would’ve put a stop to it but they did not do that until I found out that that’s what need to be done But by then it was too late. He was already in my Wi-Fi and now my Wi-Fi I replaced it once but my Wi-Fi is in compromised so I replaced it again with all new devices so don’t tell me no sir that can’t happen we watch it. We have screenshots of it. Verizon is witnessed it. The FBI has gotten emails about it with the pictures and evidence from Verizon App as case number of a case number on it so there’s other people on this platform that have experienced it as well. These are like super hackers and not just normal hackers. These guys are very well sophisticated people and very well equipped.

Feb 25, 2025 9:57 AM in response to Community User

So we imagined the mouse switching on and off privacy and security settings?? lol. Trust me I know it’s difficult to believe I even told the advisors it sounds crazy but it’s actually become more common. Rare but common

Feb 25, 2025 10:19 AM in response to muguy

So a hacker can download a malware into your phone and then if access is accidentally given and they have that remote control software in your phone, it’s 100% happens. Then once they get you emi or imei # they can clone your phone and gain access to your WiFi so yes once you wipe the phone clean but they are now in your WiFi, they can continue to control your acccount.. and you said it it’s possible but just not normally done to an average person but it still can be and is bang done. I can’t make you a believer but there’s hundred of other victims this, you just haven’t experienced it

Feb 25, 2025 10:35 AM in response to Community User

My wife and I watched him using a mouse on my device at 2:00am changing setting, a few days later at a Verizon store the manger witnessed it to. They are even going so far as to giving me another iPhone not attached to my account at all untill

we get new WiFi until this completely straighter out.

Feb 25, 2025 10:34 AM in response to Community User

Hacked82 wrote:

So a hacker can download a malware into your phone and then if access is accidentally given and they have that remote control software in your phone, it’s 100% happens. Then once they get you emi or imei # they can clone your phone and gain access to your WiFi so yes once you wipe the phone clean but they are now in your WiFi, they can continue to control your acccount.. and you said it it’s possible but just not normally done to an average person but it still can be and is bang done. I can’t make you a believer but there’s hundred of other victims this, you just haven’t experienced it

Nope. Malware cannot be downloaded onto your phone and your device cannot be controlled remotely. Your phone is not cloned. There is nobody in your WiFi. At worst, you gave someone access to your Apple Account (links to remedy have already been provided). Rather than perpetuating the fantastical why not present the issue that you're having with your device (what happened, what you did, what you thought should happen, what actually happened, etc.) so that someone here can help with your technical issue.

Every phone brand new is hacked right away

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