Apple Advanced Data Protection Explained!
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Advanced Data Protection provides end to end encryption for more iCloud data types for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users. It provides end to end encryption for iCloud backups, and Messages data therein. It also secures Photos, Notes, Reminders, Safari Bookmarks, iCloud Drive, Voice Memos, and more. Here's how to setup Advanced Data Protection on your iPhone! https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/18/advanced-data-protection-how-it-makes-your-icloud-data-more-secure-end-to-end-encryption-video/
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Apple is testing NEW features in iOS 18.3! - https://youtu.be/CY226t_6NJU
Great video, but just by the 3 minute mark he had paraphrased multiple times the same information. Writers need to be more direct! Great video nonetheless đŤśđź
iOS 18.3 RC - https://youtu.be/Ze47btmY1dY
iOS 18.3 Beta 3 - https://youtu.be/A0lbV6R4TTU
Does this make transitioning to a new phone an issue?
iOS 18.3 Beta 2 - https://youtu.be/k-eaKGjyMI4
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How's that "access iCloud Data on the web" done? Does Apple send the Data TO the device, the device decrypts and sends it back to Apple just to display it? Because if the key never leaves the device, I can't imagine the technical trick to get a webserver decrypt it.
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I find it pittyful that one of the most critical information (WHO do you know and WHERE have you been/will you be) can not be e2e encrypted. I do understand the issue with interoperability BUT IF I decide to only use this on my devices, I SHOULD be able to e2e enc. it. Because in fact instead of at least having my iPhone update the calendar on my Mac I now have NOTHING because OF COURSE I won't distribute my calendar to the regimes. Or my contacts. So, local sync it is although I have a paid iCloud account... this is kind of ridiculous. And IT COULD be solved. Let me "opt out" of interoperability and opt in into security.
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Letâs shorten it up. Shud an average new user, should they turn advanced data protection??
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Don't make us laugh with your fanboy BS. Do not use iCloud ever. We've had so many cloud companies hacked recently it's proven to be dangerous and not secure at all. Search for "cloud breaches and hacks" etc. and you'll see how bad the "cloud" really is. Just store everything on your own devices. No matter what they tell you sooner or later your private data will be stolen from a cloud computing organisation. Apple is no different. Do not believe their PR departments. They're not there for your benefit. Their BS is a con to make you feel secure. So many millions of people who felt secure had their personal data stolen without knowing about it because the cloud companies kept it quiet. Do not trust any company with your data. Ever.
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What happens if your iPhone is stolen or lost? How can you get into your iCloud on the web? Would you have to wait to get a new iPhone? Clearly, I donât completely understand the process.
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This video was very helpful. Thank you. Can I just add ADP on specific texts only ?
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As in 08:26 screenshot, my iPhone running iOS 18.7 does not show the ACCOUNT RECOVERY menu. Any idea why? Is this feature (hint) geo-restricted?
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Hi when you off ADP can you delete the recovery contact and recovery key on it when you donât want it on and will they ask for passcode or password or verification code when you donât want it on
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For mail, calendar and contacts etc?, noted they are not advanced data progection capable.
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Thank you, Do you have to have a contact. Or Can you just use a key only. Thanks.
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So in short, does this mean, yes turn on ADP?
## Chapters
00:00 Introduction
Thanks!
01:30 What is Advanced Data Protection
04:49 A warning...
Well thought out and presented tutorial! Thank you!
06:23 Prerequisites
07:52 Add a Recovery Contact
So lets say I lose my only iPhone (and only apple product) I have/had advanced data protection on. So i buy a new apple device and attempt to log in. Will I be able to as normally or will I be prompted for a recovery key or recovery contact?
09:33 Add a Recovery Key
12:06 How to enable Advanced Data Protection
so same with Knox...
13:52 Access iCloud data on the web
15:26 9to5Mac's take on Advanced Data Protection
5:07 How would you loose access to your account? like your laptop was stolen or you forgot your password? And with Advanced Data Protection off, how would Apple verify to give you access to your account?
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I turned it on the day it became available. Iâm a super big advocate for security and Privacy and I think this is just an extra step to secure your data so that way if your account ever gets compromised or Apple server ever get compromised, thereâs no way they can get to that information. I had one of my accounts hacked one time and ever since then I choose whichever way possible to secure my data and Iâm glad that they implemented this too bad. The EU wants to ban it.
@NomadOutdoorAdventuresThanks for the info! Do you have a link to the hardware wallet you use?
@RockyC33â They didnât want to open up a back door, so they proceeded to open the front door đ
I acknowledge that the alternative is to take a stance and say no to either, but thatâd likely halt the sale of iPhones in the region.
Companies like to boast about being privacy centered but bend the knee where profits would considerably fall.
Apple, for example, hosts their services for the Chinese market on Chinese servers which are not held to the same level of security and scrutiny as they could be otherwise.
Apple didn't seem to put up a fight to protect their users.
@HeyNiagraFallsemail message storage actually can be end-to-end encrypted
@tutacatGood explanation here. My only thing that I am still unsure of is; in the case that I lose my device and my data is now encrypted what is the procedure to either (a) recover data and load onto a temporary viewing spot (browser, or friends device) or (b) load data onto new/replacement device. I am guessing the procedure has something to do with the recovery contact and/or recovery key, but obviously I have never done that and it would be interesting to see how it's done.
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@jongreen6262Excellent presentation, thank you
@tonyscaminaci7959Hi. Whatâs a âhardware physical walletâ?
@pmcc95Worrying thing is the incompetence of the public sector invading our bank accounts , don't need or want their 'help'
@flappospammoI donât understand really the difference between standard data protection and advanced data protection. Why canât Apple use standard data protection for all the data types and then you wouldnât need a recovery key that you have to save for photos etc. Can standard data protection data still be accessed by Apple but not ADP data?
@alohakeithbThis turned out to be a timely video...
@9to5Macfeature removed byt Apple in UK
@piotrchwalek6925No longer available in the UK. I thought that Apple being an American company would be able to successfully appeal this. Time to move my stuff to Proton I think...not sure if they can resist this law though?
@argeebargee1503Excellent! Very well explained!
@kapurarADP should be mantadory. But the way US politics have turned and how Apple has started buying ads on Twitter, there is no new Apple device buying, and cancelling their services, from me. Will use the devices to their end, and already moving files and photos away to the OpenSource apps and Synology NAS. Not gonna lie, it is night and day difference - like moving to the year 2017, but thatâs how it is. If the exodus is bigger, there could be more money moving towards opensource and indie apps, what would change the game hugely.
@SerzennIt should be noted that you canât enable this if you have older devices that canât be updated connected to your account.
@matthewrayner5966Great! Very informative!
@george1106-w7vGreat tuorial! Thank you so much for making ADP very easy to understand!
@gjtube37Great video! You mentioned that âemail cannot be secured end-to-endâ. Turns it out it can be ⌠and Apple Mail does support this. But it is a bit more complex to set up. Apple supports something called âS/MIMEâ. MIME is âMultipart Internet Mail Extensionsâ and was an advancement over the original mail standards where the only thing you could send was a message ⌠MIME allowed you to attach files (documents, photos, etc.) but even the message âbodyâ was considered a âMIMEâ component of the message.
S/MIME is âSecure MIMEâ and uses asymmetric cryptography to either âsignâ or âencryptâ all message BODY components. I emphasize âbodyâ because it does NOT encrypt the message âheaderâ components. Think of this like sending a physical letter to a friend through the postal service. The outside of the envelope is addressed with recipient and return address ⌠which means any postal worker handling your mail can read in plaintext the names and addresses of the parties. What they donât see is the contents of the envelope. This is how S/MIME works ⌠the mail servers that handle messages on the internet can read the sender, recipient and route the message.
While S/MIME allows you to either âsignâ or âencryptâ email, there is a catchâŚ
Using S/MIME requires that you have a X.509 certificate suitable for email and ⌠those are typically not free. Most companies that provide them charge something like $15/year.
Thereâs another catch ⌠while only the âsenderâ needs this X.509 certificate to âsignâ email ⌠if you want to âencryptâ your email (full end-to-end security of the message contents) then BOTH sender AND receiver must have certificates.
I have set up S/MIME email as an exercise ⌠but do not use it in everyday life as a matter of practicality (because every recipient of a secure email must ALSO have this set up).
Thank you so much for your excellent video clarifying the advanced data protection and how it operates on our iPhones in such an excellent and detailed manner!đ¤đ¤đ¤đ¤
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