Learn how to enable end-to-end encrypted iCloud backup on your iPhone with Advanced Data Protection.

Both iPhones and Androids are encrypted by default. But there are steps you can take to safeguard your data on backups and messaging apps.

If they don’t support end-to-end encryption, you are poking holes in your own suit of armour. Basic mobile security hygiene will go a long way to keeping your data secure.

It adds iCloud Backup, Notes and Photos to data categories that are already protected by end-to-end encryption in the cloud, including health data and passwords.

However, unlike end-to-end encryption, encrypted backup isn’t enabled by default, and you have to enable it manually if you wish to add an extra level of security to your WhatsApp backups.

Unlike the default end-to-end encryption, the encryption for cloud backups needs to be enabled manually from the Settings page.

As part of an ongoing privacy push, Apple said Wednesday it will now offer full end-to-encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system. That will make ...

Apple will offer full end-to-encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system, a move that will make it more difficult for hackers to access sensitive ...

The GSMA and Apple announced that RCS messaging on iPhone will finally support strong end-to-end encryption.

Apple said it helped lead a cross industry effort to bring end-to-encryption to the RCS Universal Profile … Apple first added RCS support to the iPhone with iOS 18.1 last fall.

(Reuters) Messaging giant WhatsApp has rolled out end-to-end encryption, a step that will potentially protect texts and voice calls of its over one billion users from hackers and “regimes”.