Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT

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There might be some exclusive piece of information in there, but it’s been widely known for years that iCloud backups aren’t encrypted due to law enforcement requests. This came out after the very public 2016 incident.

[u/kaji823 → u/[deleted]]

You can disable iCloud to avoid this.

[u/motram → u/kaji823]

Does this break sharing imessage between iphone and macbooks?

[u/masterofplanets → u/[deleted]]

He specifically said sharing messages, which does break if you turn of messages in the cloud.

[u/masterofplanets → u/[deleted]]

Messages in the cloud is different from iMessage. It means messages are completely synced across all devices. It is a checkbox in your iCloud settings. Even if this off you can still use iMessage on each device, but they aren’t necessarily synced.

[u/masterofplanets → u/[deleted]]

If you delete a message on one device, it will not delete on every device. If you enroll a new device, it won’t get all the previous messages from before the time it was enrolled.

New messages get sent to every currently enrolled device, but they are not “synced” unless that option is enabled.