End-to-end encryption, which first came into our lives with the messaging application called Text Secure in 2010, has come to Skype and many large and small applications over the years. End-to-end encryption, which became popular with WhatsApp including this feature in messages, simply means that messages and all other data sent between the user and the other receiver or server are encrypted in a special way.
Apple, on the other hand, announced today that it will offer end-to-end encryption services to 9 more services. Among them are applications that may not seem so important at first, but are actually vital.
End-to-end encryption will be available to all Apple users
Apple’s end-to-end encryption, called Advanced Data Protection, is already supported in many apps, including messages (when backup is turned off), iCloud keychain, health data, and search history in the Maps app. With the new upcoming update, end-to-end encryption will also support device backup, messages backup, notes, photos, reminders, voice memos, safari favorites, Siri shortcuts and Apple wallet data.
Thanks to this update, which will come to all Apple users with iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 and MacOS 13.1, it will ensure that devices are much more secure. With this update, which will please those who save their important data in the Notes application and want to keep their photos safe, only 3 applications will remain in the Apple ecosystem that do not have end-to-end encryption.
Apple also states that Email, Contacts, and Calendar apps cannot receive end-to-end encryption because these apps use “old-fashioned” technologies and all service providers must work together to have end-to-end encryption on these services.
It is stated that iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 and MacOS 13.1 updates will be released at the end of December in the USA and in the first days of 2023 in other countries.
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