What is the Unknown (0) process with 232 threads on my iPhone?

Question

Here's a list of the processes on iPhone, obtained with help of Activity Monitor in Xcode instruments.

Is the Unknown(0) process with 232 threads owned by root malware?

Answer 1

pid 0 is always kernel_task in xnu. Further corroborated by being owned by root and having a lot of threads. It’s a synthetic process structure that represents the kernel. It isn’t malware.