[samwillis]

E2EE would have made it significantly harder for Apple to build the web based apps at iCloud.com. Not to say that shouldn’t have though, but I can understand whey they didn’t.

[plonk]

Does anyone use that? It's nice to have when I want to access my data from the web, which is never, and it's not worth the loss of security.

But I imagine the FBU wouldn't like an end-to-end encrypted iCloud Photos at all.

[judge2020]

I think the main thing is Find My access, but Apple seems to claim it's E2EE despite being available at icloud.com/find so perhaps it wasn't too complicated; I imagine it stores the plaintext password in memory to access the data.

[Vladimof]

Matrix has E2EE on the the web... it's kind of different, but you can share pretty large files...