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Apple’s Impersonation Risk Detection.

It can help spot social engineering scams in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27.

You’ll need to enable it first.

What makes social engineering scams so effective is that they’re able to get around traditional security checkpoints and convince you to make a risky choice without realizing it. A feature in iOS 27 called Impersonation Risk Detection tries to better defend against that reality on iPhones and iPads — but it’s not on by default.

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The security feature, which debuted in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, warns you when it flags suspicious signals in a supported app. Its goal is to help you stop and double-check before making sensitive changes that could expose you to a scam, which something like two-factor authentication can’t protect you from to the same degree.

How Impersonation Risk Detection works

Let’s say you’re using an app on your iPhone or iPad that supports Impersonation Risk Detection.…