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Are you aware of Pegasus? 0 interaction required. The hackers just need your phone number and for your phone to receive a text. They can then go and remove the payload text since they have full access to your phone leaving you with zero trace of being infected.
This is obviously not a worry for the average person but to say iOS and Android do not have a meaningful malware concern is just false.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
This is how Kashoghi was spied on by the Saudis and eventually murdered.
They turned his phone into a spy device.
As long as you aren't a journalist, that's not really a problem.
In most cases...