Enable Advanced Data News Today

The files stored on iCloud and on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac are already pretty well secured. But if you want the best protection against hackers, snoops, and spooks, turn on ADP.

Apple has long used end-to-end encryption for some of the information on your iPhone, like passwords or health data, but the company neglected to offer a way to better protect other crucial data, including iCloud backups, until recently. This came after years of a hard fought battle pushing Apple...

Do you have important information in iCloud that you want to keep private? Advanced Data Protection lets you do just that, but there’s more to turning the feature on than simply flipping a switch. Make sure you understand the implications of doing so before you proceed.