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iMessage isn't really e2ee

www.howtogeek.com Apple's iMessage Is Secure ... Unless You Have iCloud Enabled

Apple's iMessage isn't as private as you might think. There's a big hole in Apple's end-to-end encryption scheme, and it's called iCloud.

Apple's iMessage Is Secure ... Unless You Have iCloud Enabled

By default, iCloud backups are (1) enabled and (2) unencrypted

You would have to get not only yourself and every person you’re chatting with to manually enable encryption for their iCloud backups on their iPhones, but also every device they have that is using iMessage

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