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Apple's smartphones and devices are considered to be the strongest in terms of security. The company uses advanced security features to protect the phones of users using Apple devices from hacking and malware. Apart from this, the company also keeps providing updates from time to time to fix bugs and issues, so that hackers cannot take advantage of it. However, no matter how strong security features Apple provides, the iPhone is not 100 percent secure against malware. Malware can come to your iPhone from suspicious apps, messages containing links, or even fraudulent emails or websites. If you also think that your iPhone has been infected with malware, we will give you five tips that will help you remove the malware and keep you safe. But before that how will you check whether your phone has malware or not?
Check if your iPhone has malware or not.
Here below we are telling you 7 such incidents, which if happening in your phone, then there may be malware in your iPhone.
1. If your iPhone's battery drains very fast.
2. If you get too many pop up advertisements on your phone.
3. Apps on your phone often crash for no reason.
4. Apps you haven't installed are in your phone without your knowledge.
5. If your internet data has been used excessively.
6. Your iPhone is running extremely slow.
7. Your iPhone is overheating.
How to remove malware from your iPhone?
Update your iOS
Apple keeps launching new security updates from time to time, which reduces the bugs or loop holes in the operating system. If you have not updated the OS then first switch to the latest OS.
Clear your iPhone's browsing data
Browsing data can also introduce malware into your phone, so keep clearing your browsing data every 2-3 days. Clear your history from all the browsers you use.
remove suspicious apps
Sometimes some apps come with malware in your phone. So if there is any suspicious or app in your phone which you have not installed then uninstall it immediately.
restore your iPhone
If all the solutions mentioned above don't work, and you still suspect malware in your phone, you can restore the phone. For this follow the steps given below.
1. First of all go to Settings and open General Settings.
2. Now tap Transfer or Reset iPhone.
3. Here you have to erase all content and settings. click on
4. Now tap on Restore from iCloud Backup button.
Factory reset your iPhone
If restoring the phone doesn't remove the malware, you can restore the entire iPhone to factory settings and reset its settings.
1. First of all go to Settings and open General Settings.
2. Now tap Transfer or Reset iPhone.
3. Here you have to erase all content and settings. click on
4. Now select Set Up as New iPhone option.