DO YOU TAKE IT EVERYWHERE?

[rothschild]

I want and need a new cell phone. However, I can’t get a new phone cause
my current phone has a malware virus. And I can’t have my data downloaded 
into a new phone cause the virus downloads along with the data as happened
to my current phone from my old phone. What a stinking dilemma! 

Smartphones don't have cloud backups?

Yes,  the virus apparently is in the iCloud. 

I took the phone to Best Buy geek squad as well as Apple Store and they ran diagnostics on the phone for over a half hour, and neither could fix it.

That has to be depressing considering how much you pay for one of those.

I'm sure a recovery specialist could take care of it but it might cost around $500. Then again, Apple is doing everything it can to prevent "unauthorized" repair, which is becoming the new norm. John Deere has done the same thing.

I would think they could convert the app file to a text file and then convert it back to an app file. They don't seem to care, though.