It’s called Advanced Data Protection, and it’s a software option that was rolled out for iOS 16.2 in 2022 for U.S. users that ...

Apple enhances iCloud security with end-to-end encryption for backups, photos, notes, and more. Control your data, even from ...

iOS 16.2 can increase the security of your iCloud account contents by end-to-end encrypting all data in your account. Learn about this new feature and how to enable it.

(Not all iCloud data can be end-to-end encrypted. Apple breaks out which types of information, such as iCloud Mail messages, remains covered by standard data protection even when ADP is turned on.) ...

Advanced Data Protection for iCloud encrypts the following additional sets of data that are not otherwise protected: Device backups, Messages backups, iCloud Drive, Photos, Notes, Siri Shortcuts ...

iCloud Advanced Data Protection rolled out at the end of last year with iOS 16.2 in the United States. Apple said it would make the feature available around the world in 2023. iOS 16.3 delivers on ...

Apple outlines how to do that in the following way: Turn off Advanced Data Protection in iCloud settings on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac: In Settings or System Settings, tap your name, then tap iCloud.

Advanced Data Protection is optional by default, but Apple already protects a lot of user data both in transit and when stored in iCloud under its current policy, now called Standard Data Protection.

My current frontrunner 2FAS offers syncing among iOS/iPadOS devices via iCloud. A few 2FAS discussions I’ve come across have mentioned iCloud Advanced Data Protection.