Your iPhone just got a hidden anti-scam upgrade in iOS 27: How to enable it

By Lance Whitney · ZDNET · Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 15:45 (7h ago) · Original article ↗

New with iOS 27 (and iPadOS 27) is a setting called Impersonation Risk Detection that aims to warn you of suspicious activity that could trap you in a scam.

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