Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
this announcement is huge in multiple ways:<p>1) they just ate every other 3rd party &quot;secure&quot; backup services lunch just like they did to the Hi-Res music industry.<p>2) details of what they backup securely, besides photos (which is top priority for me): iCloud Drive: Includes Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents, PDFs, Safari downloads, or any other files manually or automatically saved to iCloud Drive.<p>3)<i>BUT</i>, perhaps the <i>BIGGEST</i> news here is that Apple is making a backup statement to what they&#x27;ve been saying for years and what they&#x27;ve recently gotten negative attention on: They don&#x27;t want your data.  They&#x27;re not Goodle&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Amazon.  They&#x27;re giving you 2TB+ of space and you can encrypt it to the point that you&#x27;ll lose your data and they don&#x27;t care -- they don&#x27;t want to mine your data, they don&#x27;t want to know what you store on there, the don&#x27;t care to scan your pictures with AI 20 different ways, they don&#x27;t want to monetize it, etc, etc.,  just pay them money for their service and transactionally they give you only thing that you want in return -- reliable, secure, private service.<p>seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone&#x2F;os&#x2F;service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.