StroppyChops wrote: Not at all, but the hackers that know how to exploit the backdoors are. If you never bank or send sensitive information on your phone, you'd be fine.

I have used financial apps that use authentication means to protect logins - verification codes sent by sms, email ...

I bough an iPhone SE back in December 2016 and while I was initially pretty impressed with it my next phone will be cheap Huawei or similar. The SE a smooth phone, but the battery is just the same crappy quality as a cheap Huawei's one - after 18 months of use it has less than 50% of it's original capacity left but it's a pain in the ass to change it. Setting up the SE as a hotspot is also a pain in the ass with the SE, I had to provide it with all kinds of setting, the cheap Huawei of my wife does it all automatically and always works. Whenever abroad my iPhone has to be re-set again manually to work as a hotspot. Pretty annoying. Main drawback is the battery though. Also using it as a hotspot it runs pretty hot, the chips used for this service are clearly not top-notch and use loads of power.

Here's a pic I took with my Galaxy Note 8, but I did touch it up with an app...