Apple may have accidentally made it almost impossible for governments to ban iMessage<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Authoritarian governments don’t like their citizens being able to have <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">private[/url] conversations using end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. This is the reason <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/russia-blocks-facetime-in-the-country-citing-use-in-terrorist-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Russia has just banned FaceTime[/url], but it was surprising <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/imessage/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iMessage[/url] had escaped a ban.</p>
<p>A potential reason for this has now been discovered: <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] may have accidentally made it almost impossible for a government to ban its end-to-end encrypted text messaging app …</p>
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Apple may have accidentally made it almost impossible for governments to ban iMessage
