Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
A better headline - users willing to give up privacy for convenience.<p>Reality - there was a period where the icloud backups created backups that apple did not have access to. Critically, this mean that if you had any of a wide variety of things happen - unless you were very good about key management - your content was lost for good. ALL your photos (which could be heartbreaking) etc.<p>It turns out this is NOT what people want. They want apple to have access to their content, so when they have a device stolen and don't have a super long recovery key properly saved, they are not hosed.<p>Same issue BTW with bitlocker on windows. People DO NOT save those recovery keys, even if they should. Microsoft added a way to force a backup into an account admins and others would have access to, thank goodness, because otherwise users there would be hosed as well.