Avast Security & Privacy Reviews

by Paper_Street

After updating to IOS 15.3 everything on my phone went cattywampus. Naturally I went to Apple support for assistance because among other issues I wasn’t able to send emails from any of my accounts. There was no resolution to my issues and today as my struggles continued I made the decision to factory reset but even that resulted in hours of pain as nothing would download from my backup and I tried to figure out why my Wi-Fi wouldn’t show connection even though it’s connected. Then finally I decided to delete AvastSecurityPrivacy. It was like magic!!! All of a sudden everything started to work perfectly and the nightmare was finally over. Just thought someone would like to know in case others may experience the same issue. 🤷‍♀️

UPDATE!!! It is a couple days later and phone is working perfectly. I tried reinstalling AvastSecurityPrivacy and all the same issues came right back. Uninstalled and back to normal. Officially unsubscribed.

by JCwired

This is not a vpn when it does not stay connected, for the past few years I have documented the fact that this product DOES NOT WORK. And I will continue to do so here on the apple review, google reviews, yelp, better business bureau, and other locations to warn other potential customers that this product is a rip off.

The reason it is a rip off is the fact that after installation and you go to sign into to reinstate your purchase is the vpn connection is made. Then it is disconnected. Therefore the breach has been made and the connection is compromised.

AVAST has known this, others have documented this, and they refuse to fix it. Well if you think I am going away try again as I will continue to document this rip off until fixed.

by 8211hcp

I was extremely dissatisfied with Avast virus protection. It slowed down my devices to the point that they were unusable. When I removed Avast, everything immediately worked fine.I filed a dispute through my credit card company to remove the annual fee, which was resolved in my favor. Now, however, Apple which apparently owns Avast refuses to accept that credit card to pay my $.99 per month iCloud subscription fee. After three phone calls and two online chats, they refuse to budge. I do not have another credit card to pay this small fee - nor should I have to open another credit card account to pay this monthly fee. So I guess I lose everything in my cloud. Shame on you, Apple. Seriously? Over 99 cents a month?

by SurfjunkieJustin

Slowed my phone down (12 Pro Max). Sites and apps would literally take minutes to load. Lost functionally. Meaning I'd click on things and there would be no response, both in browsers, and in apps. I have two phones. One for my business, and another personal. After deleting AvastSecurityPrivacy from my personal phone, it went back to being fast, and my functions came back. That's how I know it's AvastSecurityPrivacy. Common sense when clicking suspicious links (from emails for example), using a VPN from many free sources out there when needed will give you the same level of protection. Wish I could rate negative five stars. Total garbage. I'm embarrassed I was foolish enough to download AvastSecurityPrivacy in the first place.

by Hlvcaine

I paid for A full year of premium, They took the money, but now they Say I need to upgrade. They're unresponsive and AvastSecurityPrivacy is slowing my phone down dreadfully. If I hadn't already spent money on it, I would delete it. I can't believe that I spent Money for a whole year of this product Only to be told I need to upgrade again. Also, this product doesn't work on multiple devices. It only works on your phone. If you want it to work on something else, you have to buy it again, which I think is stupid. It's buggy and it causes things to lag, and sometimes it causes websites not to load at all or have to refresh over and over. Waste of time and money.

by Devin707

I’ve had Avast! for years, and when they finally designed for iOS I was ecstatic.

Sadly, the business model took a dive, followed by the software itself. Let me explain.

The customer service is painful—and it will happily charge you for the same service through different packages, overlapping and renewing, with no logical thought to it. Case in point, AvastSecurityPrivacy includes VPN. But trying to discontinue the VPN-only subscription and app met with overcharging and extra phone calls, and this almost repeated a year later.

Of greater disappointment, AvastSecurityPrivacy has fewer choices for VPN—can’t choose a location, can’t choose exceptions (like off while at home), and half the time nothing loads at all while it’s running.

Add to that the privacy setting resetting to share my data, and it feels like the OPPOSITE of a VPN.

I was a fervent advocate since 2014 for this antivirus...but I can’t recommend Avast anymore.

PS: I had to disable the VPN just to launch AvastSecurityPrivacy Store to write this.

by Rrose.cx

I’m not one to leave reviews but since I downloaded Avast I can’t seem to do anything on my phone that involves internet connection. I like the security and protection but if I knew that it would be this frustrating then I wouldn’t have gotten AvastSecurityPrivacy . I’m constantly having to turn off VPN because I’m unable to go on certain apps without it telling me there is no connection. Yes, VPN causes the connection to be slower but constantly being told that I’m not getting any internet connection is annoying even when I try to only use my data. My phone has never been slow or has had any issues before installing AvastSecurityPrivacy . I love using Avast on my computer but I wouldn’t recommend installing it on your phone. I’ve seen positive comments so I wonder why there is this issue.

by Beau519

I messaged your technical support team but got no response! AvastSecurityPrivacy was working well prior to my transpacific trip recently. AvastSecurityPrivacy would not allow connection to United Airlines’s WiFi to engage in their inflight entertainment. The only way to connect was to temporarily delete AvastSecurityPrivacy . Once at my destination, I pulled it from AvastSecurityPrivacy Store cloud and reinstalled. It worked again. I had to repeat this procedure on my return trip; however after reinstalling it again, now it does not work for “safe browsing”. It keeps acting like I need to repurchase AvastSecurityPrivacy . At the same time it states that my account is active until September 2020. I need the safe browsing (VPN) to work. Help!!

by NAMACE2282

Im giving a 2 star rating because I am new to this and am only taking a precautionary approach to a possible threat to my device and personal information and fully intend on giving a more accurate review and rating once the issue is resolved. I purchased this phone 2nd hand and recently received notifications of possible malware and also informed me of possible damage to my battery so I was advised to get this resolved ASAP to prevent my personal information from being compromised as well as further damage all around, was also a very sceptic on clicking on the 1st app I was sent to for the possibility of this warning being a scam so I browsed around and read up on AvastSecurityPrivacy description and services and I was convinced this one would work so I hope I made the right decision.

by Vazzill

AvastSecurityPrivacy makes it easy enough to install and set up. Security features & Pricing are quite decent too. However, Cons far outweigh both. VPN connection is often slow, and connecting to web links can be a nightmare, to the point I found myself disabling VPN to proceed. Very annoying! If you’re web shopper, AvastSecurityPrivacy is definitely not for you. Google often defaults to UK, which means search results are generally UK based too. (Sometimes other regions.) So unless you’re planning to do all your shopping out of the UK, forget it. There is no way to manually select VPN servers. Everything is in Auto Mode with little customization available. I found myself uninstalling AvastSecurityPrivacy after my second of day. Too hard!

by Masked23

I purchased the premium version of this for my iPad. I also added it to my iPhone. I deleted the apps and canceled my subscription as I was uncomfortable with an IP address being shown on app. Message from Apple said I could reinstall AvastSecurityPrivacy as there was time left on my original subscription. I did reinstall AvastSecurityPrivacy and reactivated a subscription renewal. It renews next March. AvastSecurityPrivacy on my iPad and iPhone will not save the vpn activation. I have to reactivate each time for both devices. I’ve called Avast support twice and since they can’t find an account for me since my purchase was through AvastSecurityPrivacy Store they refused to help on the issue I’m having. I am frustrated.

by Moonlitbeach

After installing AvastSecurityPrivacy, I am not able to connect to the Apple App Store with AvastSecurityPrivacy running. This is true on all of my Apple devices, including my MacBook Air, my iPad and my iPhone. After spending a great deal of time troubleshooting this myself and on the phone with Apple support, the 4th Genius Bar technician discovered that the Avast product was the culprit. We turned off the Avast Mobile Security VPN, and I could then connect to AvastSecurityPrivacy Store.

Considering that this application was purchased from AvastSecurityPrivacy Store, it makes no sense that it should then prevent further connections to AvastSecurityPrivacy Store.

Please fix this bug.

by Millersdad

Yes, it is a bit annoying it says my router isn’t secure enough to thwart hackers. But I can turn that notification off.
However while traveling and trying to upload photos via WiFi from my camera to my iPad I would get 3-5 photos into the transfer and everything shut down, sometimes it was before or after the first photo. When trying to transfer nearly 300 photos taken in a day having to restart the camera and AvastSecurityPrivacy every 1-4 times gets tiring.
Finally uninstalled Avast after fiddling with setting, coming to conclusion it was pointing to Avast breaking the connection, I uninstalled it and finished loading the remaining 160+ photos non-stop from the camera.
Why Avast doesn’t provide the user with some way of switching the protection off for certain unsecured connections (the camera’s WiFi literally requires the iPad to be within 6’)
I am willing to take my chances of nefarious characters trying to break in my camera WiFi within that sphere of 6’ in all directions.
Provide us with some ability to toggle it off on certain circumstances. Don’t make us uninstall then reinstall AvastSecurityPrivacy when we’ve completed dealing with an unsecured network that we control and have no ability to change its security.

by SugarLove22

I have this on my iPhone 11 and am not too impressed by it. I don’t typically use a VPN because I do lots of surveys for money on apps and you can’t be on a VPN for their tracking reasons.

My problem though is with the web protection. I would think when you use a product like this that you should just be able to setup your preferences and forget about it but it’s not how this is going for me. I have to frequently open AvastSecurityPrivacy because every time I do, web protection has turned itself off and that’s the primary reason I have AvastSecurityPrivacy.

I believe that your development team needs to look into this issue.

by Jhon/hot/single

Before downloading Avast, I was a homeless man, and I was a bald man with a beard. After I downloaded this, 1-2 days later I had notifications that kept spamming me and kept saying “Malicious website blocked” on discord and Snapchat. And wouldn’t let me type on Snapchat. My phone transformed to a Avast hot robot babe and it grabbed me and flew me to Mars. And We designated to a life-like mansion. I am now a young, hot, and rich. I am glad I downloaded AvastSecurityPrivacy. It truly touched the top to the bottom depths of my heart. -Jhon the bad boy

by Nechrinebrican

I originally purchased because I may have had a malware on my apple products. Turns out, I didn’t have the spyware but the price for multiple devices was good and I have used Avast in the past. So far I am very pleased with the level of security and have noticed very little lag in my internet speed. The VPN is an added security level and so far has stopped tons of pop-up’s that I was getting in the past.

by Blu43

Actually got this, Avast Security & Privacy AND Avast SecureLine VPN Proxy.
My problem is with Security & Privacy.
First: Hope I don’t get redundant overlapping coverage which degrades actual performance.
On Security & privacy, I opened app to blue screen and Orsnge dot /Avast symbol center page and nothing else. Hasn’t offered sign on or account, just this dot center page. Called goggle phone number - not (or no longer)active??
I guess I need unsubscribe to try to end my pain!

by Allthenicknamesw3retaken

Avast every second is checking my phone my laptop for malicious software. Avast is always looking out for you avast always has your back I will be watching HBO Max a leah al website and somehow boom! scam alert boom! malicious threat avast does that for me avast blocks those threats avast is watching out for all of us and for free too, for free avast is taking care of me watching over me being my guardian angel every day I wish I had money to pay for avast because I would. Get avest please they are worth it they are the greatest thing that has happened to me in the internet security world. Avast is amazing.

by Chincc

The iPad was protected by AVAST .. the owner said “unnecessary “ I like it on windows let me try— slowed down popups to a crawl the just a couple of misdirects clicked away.. some sites are tough “click” done . Nice and peaceful.. sometimes Netflix is asking to turn off VPN.. see ya Netflix Big sea mucho fisho.
Stays on.. seldom if any serious attacks it hasn’t tamed .. a few hiccups getting premium from iPad to iPhone.. a little message a couple of clever suggestions by electronic assistants with names and wevare sailing without leaks in heavy areas aweigh and away .. My Avast is here to stay!

by Ncok Do Fairmount Ele

so when i turn on the vpn because i tested the site and it does work, i grabbed my own IP but don’t worry i had my VPN on but for some reason i have to have 2 VPNS on for my wifi to stop turning off and on, it’s very weird because usually my wifi isn’t like that, i don’t think i can trust this site i’m just a little bit suspicious. Please give me a reason for that thank you!

my original stars was 3 but i wanna be nice and give a 4 because it does work how it should be, i’m just a little bit suspicious.

by Disappointmrnt

Seemed to install OK, everything on my new 11 worked except could not connect to AvastSecurityPrivacy Store. Local Verizon store couldn’t find anything wrong with phone or settings. Discovered that if I turned off “encryption” I could download apps. But what a bother, turn on & off a security feature so I can use basic features. Their tech dept suggested I try different servers - I decided to cancel the service and look elsewhere. Too bad, the features are attractive, price is reasonable but I’m not willing to give up normal functionality for their security.

by Jmrock99

Installed Avast on an iPad, I wanted to see if it was a worthwhile product to be installed. First thing AvastSecurityPrivacy did was tell me about router threat and wanted me to install the pro $$$$$ version. I knew my router was secure, but I checked it with four other sites and ran their diagnostics test on my network and they all confirmed my router was secure. So my assessment of this product is very simple, all AvastSecurityPrivacy or company wants is your money they don’t care about securing your devices.

by Pantical

It constantly having to reconnect to the VPN. Could be a sleep thing but sometimes it happens while actively surfing.
Update. Now the product says I have a leaked password from 2 months ago. I cannot find any details to know which password it is referring to, and more importantly, how was it leaked if this software was supposed to be protecting me. I want to like this software but so far my experience has not been so good.

by Byte2002

I love the fact that security vpn use is enabled but unfortunately it limits access to many of my iphones applications as well as slows my connection down drastically when loading larger items or doing multi sourcing ie streaming music, using google maps, and Facebook at the same time are horrible.

by Dikk777

I would of rated AvastSecurityPrivacy much better if this was also compatible with your other VPN, this should also include virus scans like your computer application. And for those who pay for your computer applications should have full access to your app for free, like the SecureLine app. In short this is a glorified VPN (to a degree).

Edit- there should also be a system in place that encrypts or alerts you when there’s a breach in locked notes.

by LudieLou

I like what I’ve seen so far, but haven’t had it long enough to give it a fair rating yet. Haven’t had any problems yet. I need some type of virus protection on my iPad, and this was recommended by a local merchant that I trust. I feel more safe with this protection on my device.

by Chubberj

AvastSecurityPrivacy is amazing. I worry a lot about internet safety and security. AvastSecurityPrivacy gives you an all-in-one place to check wi-fi safety and leaked passwords. There’s a small bug since updating to iOS 13, where the name of the network is just seen as “Wi-Fi,” but it still works wonderfully.

by Invdr_Tak

I have used Avast for many years on my computers and am happy to welcome Avast to my iPhone. Today Avast security alerted me that my one of my passwords have been leaked and where. Being able to pick up the pieces has never been easier. Thank you for having my back.

by Ame Den

This is the 1st time i am adding it to my iPad and I am very curious about it. Over those 10 + years i had it on my laptop/desktop even my cell but never on my iPad. Hope to get the same excellent protection.

by Drew Shulman

Would it be possible to make an app that basically helps you manage your spam emails By scanning your inbox and deleting the emails automatically before they get to your folder

by Jp A-z

For the first time since I have had a cell phone I feel secure in using it. Thanks for your product. I checked CNET for the best product and yours came up. I had never heard of it before.

Thanks again.

by Monstersinhouse

Iit has kept computer clean for years. The password app I am not crazy about. But everything else is wonderful.