Is Apple disabling user's Advanced Data Protection (end-to-end encryption)?

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5 points·pgm8705··3 comments

I don't know if it's Apple (all the time). However, I can confirm this is happening.

I've had my settings updated via remote access. In my case it appears a non-Apple company/person was successfully overriding my settings, primarily by exploiting WebKit vulnerabilities. Sometimes I could see it, and sometimes I could not (e.g., I received a notification and/or I saw the setting change vs. blind override without any toggling/notification but logs showed it).

In my case I filed a report with Apple, on multiple occasions. I also made lots of copies of that data, and stored in different places (i.e., 3-2-1).

Good ol' United (Surveillance) State(s) of America.

I wonder if the other device present on the account could be causing this - the one that isn't compatible with this Advanced Data Protection. Or as in comments in this 3 months old thread, it could be caused by some maintenance issue.

I only have two Apple devices, my iPhone 14 Pro and my M1 Macbook Pro, both in front of me when this happened. You can't enable this feature if you have a non-compatible device tied to your account.

Yes, I was informed by Apple Support that this was a maintenance issue. That doesn't satisfy me. The entire premise of Advanced Data Protection hinges on the promise that it only your devices can access your data. If this setting can be disabled remotely (be it malicious or not), that is obviously concerning.

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