iCloud Photo Library and security: What you need to know!iCloud Photo Library makes it easy to move your photos and videos between your devices, but how is our data kept safe? Here's what you need to know.
Update May 2017: Updated text to a new FAQ style, added a basic explanation for how end-to-end encryption keeps your photo uploads and downloads secure.
Our photos can be as personal and private as our messages, financial information, and identities. iCloud Photo Library wants to make sure all our pictures and videos are backed up online and available on all our devices. To do that, it moves the bits that make up those pictures and videos from our iPhones, iPads, and Macs up to servers on the internet and then back down to our other iPhones, iPads, and Macs. That means both the transport and the storage needs to be secure so that our content is only ever available to us and us alone.
How does Apple keep my photos secure?
Apple uses end-to-end encryption to keep your photos safe as they move between your devices and iCloud. As Apple n...
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iCloud Photo Library and security: What you need to know!
