iPhone 17 Pro hacked immediately after updating to iOS 26.0.1

My brand new iPhone 17 pro got hacked again!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡


I got it on September 30 night and finished the setting that i wanted, and then saw the new iso26.0.1 is available, and downloaded it.

the moment I downloaded I got hacked!!!

How can it be?????


Can anyone can explain this for me?




I cannot change the share with you button at all!!!


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Original Title: iPhone 27 pro

Posted on Oct 7, 2025 3:46 PM

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Posted on Oct 10, 2025 5:28 AM

Incrementally shutting off communications paths and disabling Apple iCloud access and other steps likely also taken here seem an expensive and problematic way to create yourself an ad-hoc feature phone.


Having already sought to lock down your iPhone into something approaching an ad-hoc feature phone, you can and probably will still have concerns over the security and integrity of your ad-hoc feature phone, and those concerns unanswerable. This because proving a negative — that an immensely well-funded adversary has not compromised this ad-hoc iPhone, or a purpose-built feature phone, or any other local devices — is impossible.


So… why bother paying for an iPhone that is then rendered mostly non-functional, all while still exposed to your perceived immensely well-funded adversary?


If you are correct here and you are a target, then you need tailored help with your security requirements and practices. Help well beyond what can be offered around here too, given the sorts of sensitive and private discussions involved.


And the sorts of exploits you are concerned about would be (are) immensely expensive, and targeted, and well past what the folks around here can assist with.


Within this thread so far, I see nothing indicating a security compromise.

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Oct 10, 2025 5:28 AM in response to BCaoi

Incrementally shutting off communications paths and disabling Apple iCloud access and other steps likely also taken here seem an expensive and problematic way to create yourself an ad-hoc feature phone.


Having already sought to lock down your iPhone into something approaching an ad-hoc feature phone, you can and probably will still have concerns over the security and integrity of your ad-hoc feature phone, and those concerns unanswerable. This because proving a negative — that an immensely well-funded adversary has not compromised this ad-hoc iPhone, or a purpose-built feature phone, or any other local devices — is impossible.


So… why bother paying for an iPhone that is then rendered mostly non-functional, all while still exposed to your perceived immensely well-funded adversary?


If you are correct here and you are a target, then you need tailored help with your security requirements and practices. Help well beyond what can be offered around here too, given the sorts of sensitive and private discussions involved.


And the sorts of exploits you are concerned about would be (are) immensely expensive, and targeted, and well past what the folks around here can assist with.


Within this thread so far, I see nothing indicating a security compromise.

Oct 8, 2025 5:31 AM in response to BCaoi

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Oct 9, 2025 6:13 PM in response to BCaoi

BCaoi wrote:

Hi Jeff Donald,

Thanks for the suggestions, but the Apple support doesn’t work because most of them just want to convince you that your iPhone doesn’t get hacked.
I’ve been there and done that!!!
I don’t want to waste more time with them.

Thanks again. 😊


Likely because you haven't been hacked. It's EXTREMELY difficult and OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive to hack an iPhone. You must be someone VERY wealthy and important on the world stage for you to be a target of being hacked? if you're not, sorry to disappoint you, but you're simply not worthy of being hacked. And the screenshots you posted don't show anything to backup your claim of being hacked.


More importantly, I'm not sure what you expect anyone on this user to user only forum to do if you were even remotely correct that you've been hacked? Since you must be very wealthy, you should hire a Forensic IT person to help you. We certainly can't do anything about you being hacked, which you honestly haven't been.

Oct 10, 2025 4:44 AM in response to BCaoi

Nope. It's simply not happening. Sorry. You are not hacked. No only is trying to use your camera to spy on you.

You are not going to be able to prove you've been hacked because you have not been hacked.


I highly recommend you return your iPhone and go get yourself a dumb phone. You're never going to believe that you haven't been hacked, so there is no point in pursuing the use of a smart device. The moment you see something you don't quite understand, it will just fuel your paranoia again.


Oct 10, 2025 3:15 AM in response to lobsterghost1

Hi lobsterghost1,


You say “It's EXTREMELY difficult and OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive to hack an iPhone.” ===> I agree with you on this.

Yes, it’s extremely difficult to hack an iPhone; unfortunately, the hacker has good knowledge on compute technology!!!

The hacker may be is the one from Google analytic employee who just fits in this situation.


You say “You must be someone VERY wealthy and important on the world stage for you to be a target of being hacked?”

==> I’m not wealthy and important on the world. I’m just simply regular person who love to take pictures and happy to live a simple life in Alaska!!! I'm very lucky to have tons of pictures that other people don’t have, and that’s why I have been targeted!!!

The hacker wants to steal my pictures!!! 😡


You say “So you haven't signed in your Apple Account AND you're on Airplane mode. None of which is mysterious or weird.”

==> By the way, how do you know I’m on Airplane mode?


I know my iPhone and other Apple devices have been hacked, but I don’t have enough knowledge of computer technology, so I’ve figured out the way to protect myself and my family!!!


Once again, I’m not rich on money but have tons of pictures different from other people!!!

I don’t do social medias things and forums. That’s why I don’t know how to use the forum very well…

You can assault me, but you won’t change the face that I’ve been hacked!!!


I don’t need to prove that I’ve been hacked!!! I’ve been suffered from the hacker since my father-in-law passed away…

My husband went to prepare funeral in low 48 and I couldn’t attend the funeral to pay my respects to my father-law because I needed to take care of our house in Alaska in the winter……

I come to this forum because I want to have solutions not for a fight….

The hacker knows that I don’t social with others… Pluse, my English is still not good enough….

That’s why I’m an easy target….







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