Expert reveals the signs your iPhone has been hacked by a scam

Expert reveals how to avoid common iPhone scamITV

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00:00So you go into it one day, you go into your iPhone calendar, and what comes up is this,

00:04whoa, hang on, what's all this green stuff? Last warning, all your photos are going to be deleted.

00:11Don't lose access to your files. And it's taken over your calendar, which is really quite

00:17disconcerting. Your storage is full, is basically what it's saying. And it wants you to click on a

00:23link that then takes you to buy more storage. And most of us, in haste, would say, oh, okay,

00:29it'll be a low price to get you in. Oh, I need to buy more storage. Oh, click, click, click, click,

00:36click. They've got your bank details. It's not Apple. This is not Apple asking you for more money.

00:42This is how to get rid of it. Go into settings, and from there, go down into apps. And then from

00:50apps, you can access your calendar. And once you're into your calendar, you can then see the different

00:56accounts. So calendar accounts. Look, they're the different accounts that you've got. Your storage

01:02is full. So you need to delete that. You need to get rid of that. And does it come up like that?

01:08Yes, it will. Exactly. So turn it off. Yes. How has this got into our phones? Yes. Because you clicked

01:14on something. You've allowed it access. Or an email that you've responded to. So once you've

01:19got rid of it, just rerun any updates, any software updates, shut your phone down completely and let

01:25it reset and you'll be fine.