Regardless if there is an issue with Apple Services or not, there was also an issue with your phone and TV. No phone or TV should ever do that, regardless of the state of Apple web services.

Mine and my girlfriends iPhone showed this message every time we switched apps an hour or so ago. Seems to have stopped showing the message now.

Both of mine and also my wife's did the same thing. Certainly not something wrong with the phone.

If your phone showed annoying popups like that out of nowhere for no reason then yes there is something wrong with your phone! It sounds like your wife's phone and your phone both have the same issue, the same bugs.

To be clear: there is nothing wrong with my iPhone vs anyone else's iPhone. I understand you're going for the "lawl iPhone sux" kind of thing but it's really not appreciated. You can take that somewhere else.

> To be clear: there is nothing wrong with my iPhone vs anyone else's iPhone

That doesn't mean that there isn't anything wrong with your iPhone. There very clearly is.

> understand you're going for the "lawl iPhone sux" kind of thing but it's really not appreciated.

I am doing no such thing.

There is a major UX bug on iOS that showed up today. It is a local bug that exists in local code running on iPhones that causes unpleasant, unexpected, intrusive and possibly scary popups to frequently interrupt users. To deny that is insane. It is a simple fact.

Maybe automatic updates were turned on?