Smartphones hard to combat?

Last week, I was able to explore a CNBC news article about the hacking of someone's smartphone. This article in particular gave me a very good Insight on different ways that an iPhone can be hacked just by sitting there.While reading this, I was able to connect a very specific point to previous articles that I have read, being that if someone can't get into your phone, they are able to get the sensitive data stored inside, which include contacts, places visited, and emails. Imagine if someone could obtain all of these things, including places you have been. That can further lead to them finding where you live. What other thing I was able to connect, is the way that they talked about unsecured Wi-Fi, which otherwise known as public hotspots, relating directly to my original work. Two other ways besides unsecured Wi-Fi that they had mentioned your phone could be hacked by our operating system flaws and malicious apps. Operating system flaws can be when you're updating your phone, there is a ton of security going behind it. Since your update is from the cloud, there is a chance that someone could possibly get on into that cloud and further go into your phone. Which is why there is security with updating your iPhone as well as different apps, yet if one thing flaws, it can be a tremendous outrage. Malicious apps on the other hand, are apps in which you can download from online or in the App Store, and it gives people information from you. Mostly from the App Store, these are secured, but a lot of apps downloaded from websites on the web are typically loaded with different types of hacks and viruses. What other amazing point they had made, as though it can be hard to hack an iPhone or any smartphone for that matter, if they were too, it is almost impossible and is very difficult to combat those on a handheld device, since there is no modern day technology to help those things.