In terms of viruses, the one iPhone virus so far have been relatively benign or not so sophisticated, so it’s not the end of the world.
Although that’s been changing and Apple has been increasing their update rates lately. PC patches are released once a month (many times multiple times in the same month if there is a severe bug) whereas iOS updates come every few month. This is similar to why PCs and Macs gets updates, expect much more infrequently. Fortunately Apple does eventually patch the exploits that makes those viruses work.
A number of other previously available apps with a similar description are no longer available either.ĩto5Mac has reached out to Apple for comment to clarify the situation.Īctually, there is at least one known virus for your iPhone. For example, ‘Anti-Virus Detective’ is no longer available although it is unclear exactly when this year the app was removed the app was last listed in December. Obviously, App Store search is not the most comprehensive test … but some number of antivirus apps have definitely been culled, if not all. Instead they were either games or apps replicating ‘Find My iPhone’ features under the branding of ‘mobile security’. However, under inspection, all of the related apps we checked were not actually anti-virus products. Searching for ‘antivirus’ in the App Store still returns many results. One casualty of the removal is Intego’s VirusBarrier, which claims that this takedown was not specific to its product with Apple deciding the entire category of antivirus products is now off-limits.
Although there has been no official statement from Apple on a policy change, Apple’s loose guidelines allow them to pull pretty much anything at any time, particularly something like antivirus which has questionable utility within the sandboxed iOS environment of iPhones and iPads. Searching for ‘antivirus’ now only shows games or Find My iPhone-esque apps.Īpple has seemingly decided to crack down on antivirus and antimalware apps, removing them from the App Store.
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