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by tinus_hn 1342 days ago
They are end to end encrypted, but you are not the only one holding the key. So although you can’t see for yourself, Apple does control who gets to look and there is no analytics going on.

And you can of course always chose to run local, encrypted backups.
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sfvegandude 1342 days ago
They are not end to end encrypted, per Apple’s KB entry here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
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tinus_hn 1342 days ago
True, it depends on what you consider the ends. If you consider the ends to be the device and the storage, it’s encrypted all the way. But if you consider the ends to be the original device and the new device, it is not end to end encrypted because indeed Apple does have access to the key and password recovery is possible. But it is encrypted so it is possible to control and log who has access, IE not any random developer, support person or analytics system.
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