Apple Announces That Many Of Its Apps Like Notes And Photos Will Have End-to-End Encryption

Apple announced today that end-to-end encryption will come to many Apple applications with new iOS, iPadOS and MacOS updates.End-to-end encryption, which first entered our lives in 2010 with the messaging application called Text Secure, came to Skype and many large and small applications over the years. End-to-end encryption, which has become popular with WhatsApp's incorporation of this feature into messages, simply means that messages and all other data sent between the user and other recipients or servers 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 do not seem so important at first, but are actually vital.

Apple's "Advanced Data Protection" end-to-end encryption is already supported in many apps, including messages (when backup is 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.

With iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 and MacOS 13.1, this update will come to all Apple users and make devices much more secure. Especially with this update, which will make happy those who save their important data to the Notes application and want to keep their photos safe, there will be only 3 applications in the Apple ecosystem that do not have end-to-end encryption.

Apple also says that its Email, Contacts and Calendar apps can't get end-to-end encryption because they use "old-fashioned" technologies and that all service providers must work together to have end-to-end encryption on these services.

iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 and MacOS 13.1 updates will be released in the US at the end of December, and in other countries in the first days of 2023.