Is it possible for your iphone to be hacked so that someone can text message people in your contacts (and send pictures)? If so can you trace the hack and how can you stop it?
Is it possible for your iphone to be hacked?so that someone can text message people in your contacts (and send pictures)? If so can you trace the hack and how can you stop it?
As has been said, the iPhone itself can't be hacked this way, as far as anyone currently knows.
Your Apple ID is another story. Any kind of online accounts can be hacked, and Apple IDs are no exception. If someone hacks your Apple ID, they could see all the data in the associated iCloud account, such as contacts, and could send those contacts texts that would appear to come from you. If that were to happen, you should see an alert on your other devices that your Apple ID is being used with Messages on a new device.
If you have not seen that alert, it's unlikely that this problem is occurring due to such a hack. In that case, it would be more likely that either someone has gotten their hands on your phone, or some other Apple device registered to your Apple ID, and has used it to send that message. Or that the person claiming you sent a picture is lying for some reason.
If you believe your Apple ID may have been hacked, you should change your password immediately (at appleid.apple.com). You should also seriously consider enabling two-factor authentication on your Apple ID.
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Is it possible for your iphone to be hacked so that someone can text message people in your contacts (and send pictures)? If so can you trace the hack and how can you stop it?
Ugh I am not doing any of those things.
I do have alot of issues with my email getting hacked often, could that have anything to do with it?
I also do not believe my phone is jailbroken but to be honest I am not very smart with this.
Basically text messages (inappropriate) were sent to a person in my contacts...and a text message conversation was had for about 30 that I had no idea was even going on. I noticed it on my ipad later (they are synced and normally recieve all the same messages etc). The conversation then just ended out of no where.
Very odd...and I am nervous that someone has control over my phone. -
When the system status says icloud is OK but logon reports "encountered an error when connecting to the server", where do you report the problem, or how do you connect?
Yes i am hoping staff here will look into things, even if i can not get the speeds back what i previously had for near 6 months it would be nice to know why i can not and why the download has dropped by around 10Mb and why my upload is now inconsistant.
Ironically the post concerned got edited because i actually posted the full rather silly reply the Indian call centre made babbling on about down rates rather than the uprate i queried with them.
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The form which you kindly suggested and i appreciated your help ended up in the hands of someone who either did not bother to read the query or just had such a poor grasp of English they did not understand the query.
Pretty pathetic really when BT are the largest telco in the UK. I think ill be taking my broadband business elsewhere regardless at the end of my 18 month contract, while im sure staff here are wonderful and may even yet help me, i do not particularly want to go through the almost like pulling teeth pain of getting any future issue looked at.
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Is it possible for a third party to be added to an esatblished text message thread?
Is it possible for a third party to be added to a text message thread (between 2 people). This test message thread has been established for over a year! He says he could see our message history via his icloud. Is this possible? Please help.....
How "third party" are we talking about here.....? Not another user (usually family) who has access to the same Apple Id, is it? I know, that seems too obvious.....
Could you explain the situation a little more? Did you or the other party forward your iMessage ("text" between "i" devices/Mac users) to this 3rd party? How did this 3rd party end up with any portion of your conversation (or is that the question)? I know it is easy to forward a portion of your conversation to another user. When you choose to forward a "text bubble", you receive round check boxes next to all messages in the conversation; you just pick and choose how much you want the 3rd party to receive. Other than that method, I know of no way to loop in a 3rd party to an existing conversation via iPhone or iPad.
Anyone else?
Best of luck,
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what is the sullotion?
Hello Y-Jam,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
Rather than try and run the update, you should choose the Restore option in iTunes. That will downlaod the latest release of iOS 7, and install it to the phone.
Note: Be sure to backup your data first, this WILL erase all the content on the device.
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
I recommend backing up to iTunes manually even if you backup to iCloud, as that will restore faster than an iCloud backup would.
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Sterling -
A wrong email address was entered at the setting up of the new iphone 6 and how can I change it ?
The problem is she entered an email address she thought might be mine ,but actually used by someone else .She said no password was set up .My understanding is an email must have been sent to that address and he or she can set up the password and download .And now I set up an new ID under the ICloud but still the wrong email address still appear as a default one .I tried to delete the set up but I was asked for the password which we don't have .
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Had you been the customer support,how would you resolve this?
Hi community,
i would like to have your opinion on this matter
i purchased a macbook pro 45 days ago
and i noticed recently that the lid does not close flush with the bottom part of the unit.
so i broght it to the apple store to have a look at it
they asked me what happened, i answered exactly like this:
-i think i have never noticed because it is not 100% apparent to the eye but i never dropped my laptop and as you can see there is absolutly no DENT at all
the co worker named yoan did not believe one word from what i said and told me:
-i will exceptionnally replace the screen for you
i was like what?
-i only had it for 45 days, are you going to make my laptop 1/2 original half rebuilt?
i said no way that i spent $1500 to have my laptop rebuilt after only 45 days, so i asked for an exchange given that my macbook has NO SCRATCH whatsoever.
from then on,they have never looked back to my suggestion of exchanging my laptop and they kept telling me,all i can do is put a new screen to it (VERY FLEXIBLE!!)
SO ALL I WANT IS YOUR OPINION POPULATION!!
i escalated this to 4 managers that kept saying the ONLY 1 SOLUTION that is written on my case
i am willing to attach pictures to show how unfair the apple co workers were to me.
i had not a single scratch on my laptop and i think that MY ONLY MISTAKE was that i did not realize this in my 14 days of purchase (apple refund policy)
this is my case# 248432100.
i attached pictures to this message, if you need more please let me know.
please feel free to send me your opinion by email or ask for pictures as i will send them HD to prove that i was duped by apple
this was my 5th apple product and if i can have YOUR OPINION on this, i want to know if i am willing to do business with this company in the future or im i the only one that is missing something here.
my justification as to why i did not want to change the screen lid is the following:
-i like to preserve originality of my items (especially if i paid $1500)
- i have experience in the past where i had an iphone 4, and when they changed the back glass they had blocked the flash from working properly
Please take sometime to give me your opinion on this community
MY EMAIL IS : [email protected]
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Do you object to having your car repaired, too? -
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