How To Check If Someone Is Tracking Your iPhone

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hey guys Trevor here and in this video I'm going to show you how to check if someone is tracking your iPhone it's pretty quick and easy so let's Jump Right In now there are a bunch of different things that you can check and I'll walk you through all of those things the first thing is at the very top of your phone you might see either an orange indicator a little orange dot or a Green Dot the orange dot indicates that your microphone is currently being used and the Green Dot means either only your camera or your camera and microphone are both being used so if you're not in an app or using your camera or microphone and that little orange dot or Green Dot appears at the very top that might be an indication that someone is tracking you and using your microphone and or your camera now let's check some other things let's open up your settings here and on here let's just scroll down until we get to phone and tap on phone you'll see here towards the bottom is call forwarding let's tap on that and if you see call forwarding toggled on this means that your phone number is being forwarded to a different phone number and if you didn't turn this on again that might be an indication that somebody got into your phone and did that without your permission let's go back here and and tap on calls on other devices again you want to check to see if there's calls on other devices and if there is you want to make sure that you know and recognize that device if you don't of course just toggle that off now let's go back and back again and tap on messages similar to before we want to scroll down and tap on text message forwarding again if there's a device on here that you don't recognize then you make sure to shut it off and potentially someone is tracking your text messages through this re resource basically forwarding those text messages to some random other device now let's keep going Let's uh check some other stuff let's go back and back again here and we will scroll up until we get to privacy and security and tap on that and at the very top let's tap on location services you want to check a few different things here let's tap on share my location and on here you can see various people that basically can or cannot see your location so at the very bottom here if you see somebody on here that you don't recognize that is currently seeing your location they could be tracking your physical location whether you're at your house or coffee shop or friend's house or anything like that and you want to go to that specific person and make sure you you remove them if you didn't give them permission to track your location let's go back here and you're also going to check all of these apps so if there's that little arrow right next to it that's an indication that that specific app in this case ESPN Google home Google Maps have used my location recently now if you haven't opened up those apps and you haven't use those then potentially that specific app may have a bug or might be corrupted and someone is using it nefariously so go through this entire list and if you see anything you don't recognize I would recommend deleting that specific app or at least toggling off the permission so that it will not be able to use your location now let's go back here again and go back again and we'll tap on General at the very top and on here you can see iPhone storage let's tap on that this will show you every single app that is on your phone you want to go through this entire list to see if there are any apps that you don't recognize so if you scroll through here and you think to yourself hey I have never actually used that specific app I don't think I downloaded it and installed it you can always just tap on it and then hit this delete app because somebody potentially might have again downloaded and install a nefarious app on your iPhone with the purpose of potentially tracking you and your location now the last thing that we will do is let's go back and back again and back again let's scroll to the very top and tap on your name now you can see your Apple ID and your iCloud at the very bottom here you can see a couple of devices that are connected to my iCloud if you don't recognize those devices potentially they are signed into your iCloud allowing them to be able to track your activity on your iCloud of course just tap on it and remove them if you don't recognize any devices on this list I hope this helps if it did hit the Subscribe button down below it really helps me out and I'll catch you on the next one
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Channel: Trevor Nace
Views: 12,385
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Length: 5min 20sec (320 seconds)
Published: Mon Mar 11 2024
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