Many
iPhone XR, XS Mas, 8,7 ,6s plus users are facing issue with a random pop up “goodluckyday.site”
while using safari. Due to this issue the iPhone user is not able to access the
safari as the pop up goodluckyday.site keeps popping up again and again. The
pop us saying goodluckyday.site won’t go away and comes back while opening safari .
The pop
up goodluckyday.site is even seen on the latest iOS 12.2. This even happens in
private browser mode on safari, and phone is extremely slow. The goodluckyday
.site pop up scam is reported for some particular websites and and those sites are
no more accessible due to this pop up.
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| iPhone safari pop up issue goodluckyday.site |
Many iPhone
users have tried with the Popup Blocker to stop goodluckyday.site pop up along with the Fraudulent Website warning on,
cleared browser cache, pop-up blockers are on, hard reset phone, but after all
of this nothing seems to help to remove this pop issue. But it’s not a popup
but a redirect. So, no - popup blocker
is not going to work. Many users even tried to download antivirus but did not
seems to work all the time.
Actually
this spamy ads that hijack your browser through deep linking. Clearing browser
cache and restarting Safari or Chrome won't help. It can be due to poorly coded
websites or website owner not paying attention to what is being published on
their website. Resulting letting web browser exposed to many threats to store
malicious data for such pop issue.
How to fix Safari pop up “goodluckyday.site” on iPhone XR/XS MAX /8/7/6s Plus and iPad: iOS 12.2
Fix 1: Clear
websites data
Goto to the safari Settings in
your iPhone—>safari—>advanced—>website data—>search and delete the
site there or clear them all out. Delete anything suspect, such as unknown
domains, ad-sites, anything from yahoo or yimg, domains with random characters.
This should stop this pop up.
Fix 2: Close
website in Airplane mode
If
you are unable to use safari due to spamy pop up goodluckyday.site, and can not
open any website, to fix this you can follow below steps:
1.
Close
All Browser
2.
Turn
in Airplane mode (This will turn off internet access)
3.
Now
open the browser (pop up can’t appear as no data connectivity)
4.
Enter
a new URL in the address bar ( or just close all tabs that created the sapmmy goodluckyday.site
pop up)
f
5.
Turn
off the Airplane mode
6.
You are
good to use safari again.
Fix 3:
Delete website pop up pages
Go to the lower right corner of
your screen where the little boxes are and tap to go to the storage pages of
web pages and then tap the “X” to delete the pop up page. You have to do every
time you see this issue. But this should stop and linked pop up to specific websites.
Fix 4: Use Brave Browser
Go to Apple Appstore and
install browser called Brave. It works with most of websites fine, but
automatically blocks a lot of offensive website/spams. You can try this and see
if it helps to stop such issues.
Fix 5: Reset
all settings
Please make sure to take iCloud
or iTune backup of your iPhone before doing this step. To reset your iPhone or iPad go to Settings ->
General -> Reset and then select Erase All Content and Settings. After
typing in your passcode if you've set one, you'll get a warning box appear,
with the option to Erase iPhone (or iPad) in red. Tap this. This will erase
and restart the iPhone with factory settings. Now check safari if it still
shows the pop up goodluckyday.site pop up.
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