If you feel you have a virus on your iPhone, you may well have the blues. We love our phones, and they normally work fantastically well. If you feel you have a virus, however, you may have noticed your iPhone is starting to slow down and do strange, unexpected things.
The secret to resolving your iPhone virus blues is not to panic. Instead, by reading this article, you will discover all you need to know to reclaim your phone.
1 Reboot First
Unlike your Mac, there is no antivirus app you can run on your phone to find the virus and purge it. Where you are lucky as an iPhone is that all apps have to be ed through the store. This ensures that any viruses are stored in temporary files. So reboot your phone as this will purge the temporary files and, with it, a virus. Simply switch it off and then start it up again.
If the virus was in the temporary files, it should now be purged for good. Yay! If your phone isn’t restored to the speedy slick device it was in its glory days, then try the following outlined below.
2 Delete Nefarious Apps
Due to coding not being the best or the app security being a little lax, the cause of all your woes could be a specific app. If your iPhone started running slow after a recent app installation or you feel that one app is the culprit, delete it.
- Tap the app and hold.
- Tap delete.
- Confirm you want to delete the app.
Still no joy? Consider restoring backup data from iCloud.
3 Restore a backup from iCloud
To restore a backup from iCloud, do the following:
- Open Settings.
- Tap General, Transfer or Reset, Erase All Content and Settings, Backup Then Erase.
- Your phone will get to work backing up and restoring the iOS version. It may take a few minutes. Be patient.
- Go through the prompts until you get an option to Restore from iCloud Backup. Tap it.
- Select the backup you want to restore. You may need to sign into iCloud.
Hopefully, you now have a great phone that is firing on all cylinders. If it isn’t and all else has failed, there is one last option albeit a drastic one!
4 Factory Reset
If your phone is still showing signs of having a virus, the next step is to nuke it or, in other words, restore factory settings. It’s a drastic measure as all the information you and your iPhone have accumulated over the years is annihilated. Sometimes, you just have to do what’s right to restore your phone to its glory days.
- Open Settings.
- Tap General, Reset, Erase All Content and Settings, and Erase Now.
- Your phone will reboot. Follow the prompts as needed to set your iPhone backup.
Getting a phone virus is no fun, but hopefully, after giving these options a go, one of them will make your phone all shiny once more.
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