Is your phone actually hacked, or just acting weird?
Answer nine questions about what your phone has been doing lately. We’ll score the real warning signs and tell you exactly what to check next — no scare tactics, no downloads.
- ✓ Battery drain — normal
- ✓ App permissions — checked
- ✓ Network activity — steady
- ✓ Login history — reviewed
Illustrative animation — not a live scan of your device
Run the checklist
Answer honestly based on the last 7–10 days. Each “yes” adds weight to your risk score below.
Nine warning signs, explained
Each of these is common on its own. It’s the combination, and how sudden the change was, that matters most.
Based on published guidance, not guesswork
These symptoms mirror the patterns that national cybersecurity agencies and device makers already publish for the public — we’ve just put them behind a scoring system.
CISA (US)
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency publishes a free mobile device checklist covering app permissions, updates and trusted chargers.
Apple Support
Apple documents reviewing device management profiles, app permissions and Safety Check when a device behaves unexpectedly.
Google Safety Center
Google’s own Security Checkup covers the account side of this same idea: reviewing signed-in devices and recent activity.
CISA notes that hundreds of millions of smartphones are in active use in the US alone — enough of an attack surface that agencies publish plain-language guidance for everyday users, not just enterprises.
What to do about it
Work through these in order. Most compromises are cleared up by step 4 — a reset is a last resort, not a first step.
Real tools that actually check something
No website can scan your phone’s files directly — these are the official, browser-based tools that genuinely check logins, breaches and permissions.
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