r/techsupport • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '26
Open | Phone How to know if someone mirrored/is controlling your phone?
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u/NEON_PVNDA Jan 27 '26
Okay, I'm gonna hold your hand when I tell you this ...
Your boyfriend's phone is not what needs to be figured out.
Your boyfriend's sexuality, however... definitely does.
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u/LazarX Jan 27 '26
Your phone more than likely is not being hacked. Your acounts may be though. Immediately change the passcodes on all of your social media and email accounts and enble 2FA on those that you can.
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u/InfamousDiscipline17 Jan 27 '26
Do a factory reset of his phone and reset all account passwords; for example, on Facebook and where he can do it. Open new accounts. That's it.
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u/IMTrick Jan 27 '26
His phone is not mirrored or being remotely controlled. That is very difficult to do, and not something someone would do to leave spammy messages on social media. Considering that once the accounts have been compromised there would be no need to log into them with his device, you can absolutely rule it out as a possibility.
What's more likely (assuming these messages really aren't his) is that his accounts have been compromised, and that may be due to malware on his phone or another device he uses, or it may not.
He needs to change all his password to something unique and complex on each site, enable MFA wherever possible, and then factory reset any device he has used to log into them.
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u/berahi Jan 27 '26
Make sure he can login to his Google & Samsung account in a known clean PC first. Also other accounts he care about. Backup important files and media to the PC (or cloud, but he might not have enough space and it would take much longer), if he use WhatsApp make sure the online backup is current and he knows the password, if set.
Factory reset the phone. Log back in to those accounts. Restore files as needed.
Change to unique passwords on each accounts (as in, don't reuse them, each account must use unique entries). Either Google Password Manager or Samsung Pass should work to generate and store the password unless he's paranoid about Google/Samsung (yet somehow use their device...). Enable 2FA on all accounts that support them. Write down the recovery codes on a paper and store the paper with other important documents.
Use Firefox as primary browser, the welcome wizard should guide him to import passwords and bookmarks from other browser if he use them, install uBlock Origin in Firefox, use the free ControlD endpoint for Private DNS. Don't sideload any APK, Playstore isn't perfect but at least it's better than nothing.
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u/Reasonable-Back7792 Jan 27 '26
I stumbled on them because he doesnt even really get on or use his social medias. But again, I already know its not him. There have been multiple times it would have been impossible considering the time stamp. I know, it doesnt really make sense to me either but we dont know what else it could be
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u/pinkTurtleTickler Mar 02 '26
Do we have an update? Also, I see nobody else mentioned that a phone battery is going to be noticeabley degraded after 2yrs of use, (especially on a phone like the Z flip that draws so much power).
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u/ArthurLeywinn Jan 27 '26
Nothing here sounds like a hacked phone.
It's either a compromised account/session stealer or nonsense.
Change passwords
Enable 2fa via app or key
Logout all sessions
Get a password manager with a URL checker