r/hackintosh NGL, its such an absolute waste of time. But it’s like a puzzle you feel you must complete…

What about if Apples **‘Advanced Data Protection’ ** which I’m not sure if it is only enabled with iCloud+ subscriptions. Where Apple claims that ‘Advanced Data Protection uses end to end encryption to ensure that data types listed here can only be decrypted on your trusted devices, protecting your information even in the case of a data breach in the cloud’ this list includes VERY sensitive things such as FULL device backups, FULL Message Backups (iMessage & SMS etc), iCloud Drive and a whole lot more. Mainly because Apple literally says on their settings page to turn this on ‘Because Apple will NOT have the keys required to recover your data, you will be guided through verification of your recovery methods in case you ever lose access to your account.’

Can someone verify whether using this would mitigate attempts at retrieval of the data and would require a very lengthy brute-force instead of just HANDING OVER the decryption keys.

Thank you OP for continuing bringing this to people’s attention.