It might not all fit anyway, glass protectors are quite thick and if you put one on the back of a phone, it will probably no longer fit properly inside a case.

It was probably a hoax. There’s been a ton of hoax videos on TikTok about “hidden codes” that supposedly “unlocks hidden features” or “lets you know if your phone is hacked” with instructions on entering certain codes into the dialler in order to bring up text that most people don’t understand.

None of these claims are actually true. The codes they tell you to enter are general carrier diagnostic codes and don’t actually do what the TikTok videos claim. They’ll bring up some diagnostic information that the general user won’t understand and the videos trick people into thinking the text means something else.

Should be okay, the adhesive is far stronger than paper. Actually if you kept pushing, the adhesive would have probably broken the paper and not the other way around (but don’t actually do that).

Your phone will be okay. The screen is held down with strong adhesive and two screws at the bottom of the device, a fingernail won’t be anywhere near strong enough to separate the display panel from the body of the device.

I’ve done repairs on these devices before, in order to remove the screen not only do you need to unscrew the two screws at the bottom, but you also need to apply a lot of heat (80°C, 176°F) in order to even loosen the adhesive. Sometimes, even chemical treatment is required.

Based on your posting history, it looks like you’re paranoid about someone remote-installing malware on your device. Checking crash logs like these won’t help, but Amnesty International released a piece of software called Mobile Verification Toolkit that will help detect traces of malware. There’s a 99.9% chance you’re not the target of iOS spyware.

It’s possible he obtained the information through other means. While spyware can exist on iPhones, it’s extremely complex and will cost about $500,000 to compile and deploy against a single target. Unless this guy has money lying around to burn on something like this, it’s unlikely he compromised the device.

Either way, it’s not a healthy thing to do and they should do something about the root cause of his insecurities.

Was the “Find My has been disabled on your iPhone” email genuine? Could it have been another scam/phishing email?

Go to the iCloud website and check if there are any unfamiliar devices, if there are, remove them and change your Apple ID password immediately. It’s possible for someone to remove your device from iCloud without knowing your Apple ID password or compromising the account, but the method to do so is complex and involves serial spoofing.

Not safe. While it won’t download malware on your device, the entire site is a bait for a phishing network.

When you select a game to download, the site will display a fake “downloading and installing” animation but it’s not actually installing anything. When the loading bar reaches 100%, it will say you need to “complete at least 2 offers” to unlock the game. The “offers” require you to enter personal details and sign up for paid services.

“Petrol should be free because I bought a car”

You can, so long as the receiving device is running an iOS version equal or newer to the backup, it can be restored. Technically I could even make a backup from my 1st generation iPhone and restore it to an iPhone 15.

UTM can only emulate different operating systems, which isn’t the same as natively running them. It also doesn’t have access to various optimisations needed to run modern OSes at a useable speed, older OSes like Windows XP and OS X Leopard are about its limit. I’ve tried booting macOS Mojave on UTM via an A17 Pro device before and it didn’t work.

After the loading circle, did the device return to the Lock Screen/Home Screen, or did it fully reboot and display the boot logo? If it’s the former, then that’s a respring, which is what happens when SpringBoard/BackBoard crashes and restarts.

It’s happened to me on a few occasions too, caused by a software bug.

People who don’t have problems with their purchase tend not to post about it, so you get a misrepresentation of results. Also I discovered that a small number of complaint posts here turned out to be fakes or the same person repeatedly posting, deleting, and reposting complaints to inflate the numbers. While that happens every year, it seems to be happening more this year.

Meanwhile in an alternate universe, someone posts:

“I hate iPhone!!! What’s the point of having a passcode if they just let you keep trying again and again without trying to stop someone who obviouly doesnt know the passcode and is trying to guess it!!! Someone stole my phone and just kept trying every possible number and they managed to guess my passcode after a few hours and now all my private photos are leaked on the Internet!!!”

If the images were edited using apps other than the default photos app and then exported to the camera roll, it can sometimes cause the date to be overwritten with the date the image was exported.