How do I stop someone from controlling my iPhone 16 and Apple Account through unauthorized WiFi connections?

So, they sent you a new phone. Then, the next day you get a message asking you to sign out of the old phone - presumably the one that the new one replaced. You need to do this so that the carrier can reset the phone you returned, don't you? Sounds perfectly normal to me.

Which apps have have you got that you have not downloaded?

Watisay wrote:

Since my last response, I was locked out of my account! But found some interesting new “programs” available on my device!!! I called Apple support and started telling them what they were and where they were coming from!! I wish I could post pictures! So. Tell me now what you think!

The Chromium

Git Repository

Google Open

Freenode

Github Page

Chrome Flags

Chrome Version chrome://version

Codereview chromium.org

Examples of what I found!!!!!

Command Line —use-mobile-user-agent-top-controls-hide-threshold-d=0.5—disable-domain—reliability—order file-memory-optimization—use-mobile-user-agent—enable-pinch——enable—viewpoint—

validate-input-event-stream-enable-long press-dragselection

And it goes on and on!!

CHROME FLAGS

74.0 3729 136

Warning Experimental features ahead! By enabling these features, you could lose browser data, or compromise your security or privacy. Enabled features apply to all users of the browser.

Override software list

override built-in software

Ignore geo blacklist

Disabled

Accelerated 2D canvas

enables the use of the GPI

#diable accelerated 2D canvas

Enabled

Composite render layers borders

Select HW strategies

Tint GL composited content

Show overdraw feedback

Partial swap!!!!

And it just keeps on going! When I talked to Apple support they wanted meme to contact law enforcement! But that’s a joke!! I have reported being hacked, because there has been money has been taken out of my bank account several times! Purchases from Apple and Google! My social security has been compromised! And nobody cares!!! Got any suggestions???

Which account were you locked out of? If you were locked out of your Apple account then how did you manage post here. If you were locked out of your iPhone then how did you manage to get back in to find the list of "programs" that you posted here?

You've still not provided details on the WiFi Profiles you are so worried about. Why not?

Given that the OP is a 53 year old woman who seems unfamiliar with technology, I put most of that down to a combination of ignorance of the technologies involved and emotional overload from this perceived harassment.

g_wolfman wrote:

Given that the OP is a 53 year old woman who seems unfamiliar with technology, I put most of that down to a combination of ignorance of the technologies involved and emotional overload from this perceived harassment.

Including the "I returned to the store 3 different times to get help, but all that the store did, and my carrier did, was send me to an Apple Store for a complete reset and change phone numbers, hoping that this would solve the issue! NOT!! This has happened 11 times!"

Apple stores don't change phone numbers, do they? In the case of the OP it would seem that she's had 12 different numbers on this phone. I don't believe that.

"There are 3 “Managed WiFi” accounts on my phone! Through my carrier, but they won’t even address that issue!?" I've asked for screenshots and names but get nothing back - in fact when anyone asks for hard evidence the OP wanders off somewhere else.

Call me suspicious, but here's a little mini-spate of posts like this at the moment - long, rambling, oddly-punctuated, all with wild claims about hackers from posters who don't quite respond to the questions we ask to help them. I'll take that back if the OP posts screenshots of the managed networks and they prove not to be her carriers or if she posts one single bit of verifiable evidence that someone is controlling her phone. Until then, colour me sceptical.

I'm in the UK and have never seen any managed networks. There aren't any on my phone. There is, of course, a massive list of every airport, client, train, pub, ... etc., that I've ever used and I'm sure that people can be manipulated to believe that this, among other innocent stuff, is evidence that they are being "hacked".

Zurarczurx wrote:

I'm in the UK and have never seen any managed networks. There aren't any on my phone. There is, of course, a massive list of every airport, client, train, pub, ... etc., that I've ever used and I'm sure that people can be manipulated to believe that this, among other innocent stuff, is evidence that they are being "hacked".

Managed Wi-Fi networks are common with cellular carriers in the US (and potentially elsewhere), as part of offloading cellular traffic onto carrier Wi-Fi networks.

Virtual network operators (MVNO) can be quite keen on this cellular offload too, particularly if they run other networks such as cable TV networks.

The carrier will load known Wi-Fi networks as part of the carrier settings.

These networks will appear as “managed” networks.

There will be no matching MDM profile loaded, as the Wi-Fi networks are loaded via the selected SIM or eSIM and that carrier’s carrier settings.

In normal circumstances, the Wi-Fi network names will not be deletable by the user (except by removing SIM or eSIM), and will match carrier documentation.

The iPhone itself will not otherwise be managed or supervised.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

g_wolfman wrote:

Given that the OP is a 53 year old woman who seems unfamiliar with technology, I put most of that down to a combination of ignorance of the technologies involved and emotional overload from this perceived harassment.

I'm sure you didn't mean this to sound as if you assume older women can't understand technology and are inclined to become emotionally overwrought, but it kinda did sound like that.

Hello~ I must admit …it reads the same for me.

~Katana-San~

g_wolfman wrote:

I was basing my comment on the specifics in the OP's actual posts, not any general assumptions - but of course I apologize if that wasn't apparent and I came across as less than inclusive.

Thank you for that. I've read enough of your posts to know that you didn't mean it to sound that way.

Keep up the good work.

The managed Wifi is mainly a USA thing. Closest I've seen in the UK is the Virgin Wifi in the London Underground (if that still exists).

I was basing my comment on the specifics in the OP's actual posts, not any general assumptions - but of course I apologize if that wasn't apparent and I came across as less than inclusive.

I apologize again, as I did to IdrisSeabright - not how that was intended.