Since you&#x27;re responding to me I&#x27;m assuming you mean me, but I have no problem conceptualizing non-malicious things you would want to keep private.<p>The problem here is that a lot of the stuff stored on phones falls somewhere between &quot;dies with me&quot; private and &quot;should pass on to my family&quot; private. Or &quot;should be recoverable if I lose my key&quot; private.<p>Strong encryption makes it impossible to recover in the event of a lost key or pass on to family in the event of your death. So that&#x27;s not necessarily a great default for, say, decades of family photos. It would be a huge tragedy if that was lost.<p>The good news is that Apple does provide tools to opt-in to stronger security, rather easily. For example, the Notes app was recently upgraded with note-level strong encryption. That might be a good solution for your most private notes, without endangering the survivability of your digital memories and assets.