Virus pop-ups on iPhone

You don't have any viruses on your phone, it is a scam message designed to get you to purchase unnecessary software or phish for personal information.

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Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

Those are scam attempts. Do not interact with them. Your iPhone does not have viruses. There are no known viruses that can affect it.

Learn more: Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

Sounds like you saw scam messages, aimed at getting you to

• Contact criminals posing as "tech support" or "anti-virus" companies, for help, or
• Install some worthless "security" app that would do nothing to fix the alleged problem

The "help" you would receive would be, of course, help in being ripped off …

If you notice a pattern of these scam messages popping up whenever you visit a certain Web site, or play a certain ad-supported game, you may want to avoid visiting the Web site or using the game app in question.

There's nothing to remove; they're a scam. A message warning of malware will only be legitimate if it's in response to manually starting a scanner or uploading a file to a website.

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