Security Setting EVERY Apple User Needs to Fix (Tutorial)

Are you going to turn on Advanced Data Protection for your iCloud account? Leave a comment below to let me know if this was helpful!

Is our data in hide my email encrypted? Will the forwarding email addresses be encrypted? Will it be classed as a contact and therefore not encrypted? If it is, then it can be a good way of generating alias

Thanks for a very clear video. I do have another question. If I lose access to all my Apple devices, let say from fire or otherwise destroyed, can I still access iCloud from a web browser ? Is the problem the fact that because I don't have any devices I won't have any means to access 2FA and therefore I will need a recovery key from a trusted contact (previously set up) or fill in the long recovery key ?

Thanks I wish I knew this sooner

Nice

Why Privacy??? Because it’s mine!!!! thats why- it seem like everyone has our information. Most companies have been breached! We should go back to no phones and cash only😂

How about Apple has a back door for the government! And if they want to function, they have to abide obey world government

Apple has to be the most paranoid people o earth ….wow. Crazy people

Thank you for this common sense explanation of the pros and cons of this addition step.

Thoughts on samsung message guard ? How do you protect from pegasus?

I know that I’ll mess up and permanently lock myself out. Not worth the risk for the average user.

Apple wanted to do it by default for iCloud but the FBI asked them not to and Apple agreed. There’s a lot of news stories about it.

could this encryption app eventually cause my phone to go into SOS only when my prepaid at&t minutes expire? and what happens if i turn it off and i forgot my key but i do have a backup contact set up. i don’t remember setting this up and if i have other devices linked to it, 1) my lenovo laptop is apparantly corrupted and i also had microsoft onedrive app on this phone, which i believe has corrupted files on it. what can i do?

this is all bullsht because a thief knowing our 6-digit passcode can get rid of all this security settings and he can lock us out completely from our iCloud forever by simply chaning iCloud password. He can even set up a new 28-digit key so we are losing access forever since this step is taken... Screen Time does not prevent from this too because he can do this:
1. Screen Time settings > Change Screen Time passcode.
2. Click Forgot Passcode
3. Enter Apple ID email but not password…click forgot Apple ID password
4. This produces a screen asking for iPhone Passcode which thief has. Enter Passcode leads to screen to enter new Apple ID password.

Yes, I do not trust them. I do not use the cloud for that reason. F. Miller Retired software engineer

The hotel analogy was great thanks

What apps do you use that are Not protected by advanced security features?

I have no idea what I’m doing wrong; I re-enter the entire recovery key EXACTLY and it says the key is incorrect…….even when I can see it’s identical 🤔

I’m pretty illiterate with this stuff so pardon me if this is a stupid question lol, is Advanced Data Protection, and linking your iPhone with a Yubico security key pretty much a mutually exclusive security move, or would you actually want to do both? Thanks.

> Company Claims all user data is encrypted.
> Company announces they will search year data for illegal content, admitting that user data is not entirely encrypted.
> Company has a Opt-In option for 'Advanced Data Protection'
Yes, Let's all just assume Apple decided to relinquish access to our files with this setting, for real this time.
No. I don't trust Apple. I Don't trust google.

Remember "There is no cloud it's just someone else's computer." Do you really want your data in some else's hands?

I think I'm done here.

How secure would my iPhone be if I enabled both this and lockdown mode?

Full End-End encryption Does not work if you use iCloud for Windows.

Great review however, I've got one question. Those using Windows and subscribed to iCloud are they able to use and setup the Advanced Data Protection via the browser or the dedicated iCloud Windows app? Been contemplating of getting iCloud mainly, because of the E2EE protection over other cloud services. Tks.

Shocks me more that the US government allowed Apple to do this LoL

You forgot to mention the screen time passcode that keeps hackers from locking you out! That’s a big omission and leaves people only following these steps 100% vulnerable to passcode thieves!

Absolute encryption requires an absolute backup strategy. Most people won’t think about backing up what’s already on the cloud. E2E/C2E means you have security of local data, with backup safety of the same level. Get mugged and lose all your Apple devices, it’s as good as losing your only ssd with all your data. Gone forever.

My Advanced Data Protection will turn on until June 13,2023

you can make it happened if one of you machines have older os like Monterey

Not yet on some country

CIA is laughing out very loud right now 😂

Contacts are still exposed

Don’t want to enable 2FA so no go for me.

Useless. CIA can easily hack it.

Hotel room is a very go analogy. I would add that with the vault items that a lost key the items are lost forever... suggest everything in the vault is automatically destroyed when you check out.

The obstacle I face when attempting to enable this is a Macbook whose OS cannot be updated to a version that is suitable for Advanced Data Protection. I'll prolly have to create a new iCloud account for it as I can think of no other way around it.

If I turn it on then I can’t sign into my I cloud on my 2017 Mac book air

HOW CAN WE EVEN TRUST THAT THE APPLE ENCRYPTION SYSTEM IS ACTUALLY SECURE ?????

Please answer This

@All Things Secured, I don't know much about computers and that's why I subscribed to your channel. Therefore, I have a question for you: Do you recommend switching on "Access iCloud Data On The Web" under iCloud settings on my Mac? Furthermore, can you explain the securities pros and cons of turning this feature on? Maybe you should consider doing a video about this for beginners like myself.

Can this keep plaid away from entering our banks since we connect our bank via plaid . Crypto purchasing for example

You’re one of the “hot wife” guys.

If someone observes you entering your PIN code to unlock your phone, steals the phone then uses the PIN to change your AppleID password and changes the recovery key, what happens to all your data and how do you recover from that? Thanks

I need to encrypt my data because I want. That’s it

I haven’t even watched a video and I gave it away just because you’re covering topic. I wanted a simple easy explanation of this. I was aware it was available and haven’t taken the time to figure it out. Thank you for the video.

Encryption is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.

Encryption is worthless when AI is sitting on your phone with direct access to every key you press. Right now every apple owner is living on Apple’s goodwill. When things get tough for Apple - watch out!

Can't fall for the banana in the tail pipe trick. The government will never allow you privacy. Your phone has a video and audio..

You could also move to a safer country with actual privacy laws.

Big responsibility. Not to be entered into lightly.

Helo and Thanks for the explanation. Could you please tell me if screen sharing through iMessage from Mac to Mac is encrypted? Thanks 😊

I don't have an Apple device any more. It was stolen last year. I checked to see whether someone found it, but everyone I spoke with at the market, the post office, the laundromat, the pharmacy, and the coffee shop said no, they didn't have it. It had my Bar Association courses on it.

Can’t even add my wife as a contact “has to be a contact using iMessage” she has an iPhone 13promax and we message strictly via iMessage 😑