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by hrpnk 1245 days ago
> If your device can't be updated to compatible software, you won't be able to sign back in.

Unless there will be a warning when adding the keys, this can lead to many support requests they will get from users who did not read this part.

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There was a warning when turning Advanced Data Protection. It wouldn’t let you continue until the all the devices signed into iCloud were updated.
Nice. Great to hear that it's built the way it should be!
They've been pretty good about this in the past, with iCloud E2EE my phone refused to let me enable it without updating all associated devices.
How has this feature been working for you. It's apparently not available in my country but I'm looking forward to trying it.
Haven't noticed any difference except the process to access iCloud on the web is a little different, overall it works great across all my devices.
I haven't noticed a difference. Enabling icloud.com and giving it even temporary keys seems like quite the downside, so I didn't try that.
It wasn't available in my country (UK) yesterday, but I just checked after updating to 16.3 and it now says I can enable it.