Removing malware from iPhone 16 running iOS 18

I have malware on my IPhone 16 running iOS 18.

o told the guys at apple there was something going on with my phone yesterday. There response was stop reading crash report and logs. Leave it to the experts. Also why can’t I up lot the screen shots here?? Ohh I just put my phone into lock down mode


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iPhone 16, iOS 18

Posted on Aug 17, 2025 9:37 PM

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Posted on Aug 17, 2025 10:16 PM

What you saw was likely a malicious webpage in Safari, not actual malware on your device. Once you close the Safari tab, the threat is gone. This is because iOS uses sandboxing: every third-party app runs in its own secure environment, preventing it from accessing data from other apps or altering your device. Sandboxing is specifically designed to block apps and websites from gathering or modifying information outside their own container.


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Aug 17, 2025 10:16 PM in response to mat142

What you saw was likely a malicious webpage in Safari, not actual malware on your device. Once you close the Safari tab, the threat is gone. This is because iOS uses sandboxing: every third-party app runs in its own secure environment, preventing it from accessing data from other apps or altering your device. Sandboxing is specifically designed to block apps and websites from gathering or modifying information outside their own container.


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Aug 17, 2025 9:52 PM in response to mat142

Okay, there are two general paths here.


You have risks or exposures past what is appropriate to discuss there and have been targeted by malware worth millions, and that puts your situation well outside of what assistance can be offered here.


Or there’s no malware here. Analytics are filled with ominous and scarily-worded and utterly benign messages. They’re intended for Apple a d app developers.


Can analytics be useful for locating malware? Sure. Preferably, if you have automated scanning tools, and known targets and patterns to scan for, and enough data to identify normal and abnormal activities. And more generally, manually reading analytics is hunting for needles in haystacks, with an ever-increasing number of haystacks, and an unknown and quite possibly zero number of needles, and little idea what the needles even look like. And this all assumes the malware didn’t just delete the relevant parts of the analytics. If there’s malware here. Which is quite rare and targeted, based on available info.


Screen shots post fine.

Aug 18, 2025 2:11 PM in response to mat142

I see no malware here, and no issues with your iPhone, and why most of that is posted here is unclear.


To locate your local IPv4 network router address, Settings > Wi-Fi > tap the ℹ️ to the right of the Wi-Fi network, and scroll down looking for the IPv4 router address.


The following image from Settings is from iPad, but iPhone looks similar.


The router IPv4 address is circled in red.


For many networks, it’ll be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1, but that can vary.


Enter that in the address bar to access your Wi-Fi router.



(The local network IPv4 addresses have been expunged from that image using grey boxes.)


Aug 17, 2025 11:51 PM in response to MrHoffman

It turns off all the data gathering settings. Usually in the morning I have to go back through and turn them all back on again. Which in turn resets the analytics data. So it’s and up hill battle.

amd not just that I have an app on my phone that I have never seen before and it’s not in the apple App Store, called Decode by Blue brute LLC. Which I can’t not find any info about.



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