I got a pop up saying a virus was detected on my iPhone. Should I be worried?

I was on safari when a pop up said a virus was detected and to click ok to scan

99% of the time when you get popups that say that they are just ads themselves trying to get you to load some bogus software onto your phone which WILL give it a virus… Don't do it.

That itself is a browser virus. Probably best thing to do is uninstall and reinstall then get a virus app yourself.

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