How (and Why) to Take Full Advantage of Apple’s New Advanced Data Protection Feature

With the iOS 16.2 update, Apple introduced “Advanced Data Protection,” which finally introduced end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for most items backed up or stored in iCloud.

Apple has long been criticized, with good reason, over its iCloud service not providing E2EE (where the user has the decryption keys); for years, when enabled, for a good chunk of data iPhone syncs to iCloud, Apple held the decryption keys for some stored data, which included:

• Message backups


• Device backups


• Photos


• Notes


• Safari Bookmarks …

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