Comments on: Fix: Google Detected Unusual Traffic in Safari on iPhone & iPad

By: daven911

daven911 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 15:26:47 +0000

In reply to Paul. I changed the actual settings in the Safari browser on the bottom of the Home Page > Edit > Toggled different settings on/off. I’m working through which one is the culprit but it appears that the “iCloud Tabs” might have had a couple of tabs that hit Google EVERY TIME a new browser window was opened looking like “high traffic.” Google denies service to what appears like a machine hitting it with high concurrency (like a denial of service attack or software scrapers). That’s why the Captcha pops up. Fingers crossed.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 07:09:09 +0000

It’s not often you read an article and what they suggest works straight away.. thanks for this.. I cleared my cookies and hey presto.. probably should’ve thought of that before but..oops. Thanks for you work, I appreciate it.

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:36:37 +0000

I want to thank you for writing this.

Perform a Network Reset fixed this for me. Been dealing with it for quite some time.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:37:01 +0000

I didn’t see this mentioned in the possible solutions. apologies if I missed it. In my case, I discovered my VPN service (ExpressVPN) was connected when I didn’t need it. After I disconnected, I stopped getting the Google message. Might be worth checking in case, like me, you have your VPN connection running in the background….

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:32:32 +0000

I tried all of the above, including Network Reset, changing the provider and disabling the Fraudulent Website Warning. (Thank you to both contributors for the extra suggestions).

Unfortunately I am still getting the same Google message so I’ll have to keep looking for a solution

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:51:55 +0000

I tried everything on the list except the ‘Reset’ and nothing worked. A couple of times it seemed to work but after a few time of using Google it returned. I’m waiting to try the ‘Reset’ until I’m able to do a full backup first.

I tried turning off ‘Settings/Safari/Fraudulent Website Warning’ and there have not been any errors since, (over 6 hrs now). I don’t know how critical it is to have that enabled, but after I do a backup and a ‘Reset’ I’ll try to test it again with the Fraudulent Website Warning enabled.

By: Phil K

Phil K — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 11:12:26 +0000

We resolved this by changing the Search Provider for Safari (iOS 15) to Bing (Settings > Safari > Search Engine change to Bing or to any other search provider if Bing is the issue).
Perform one search using this new provider, then change it back to the original ‘problem’ provider.