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Photographer: Thom Bradley | Source: Unsplash Advanced Data Protection for iCloud Advanced Data Protection for iCloud is an optional setting that offers Apple's highest level of cloud data security. When users turn it on, their trusted devices retain sole access to the encryption keys for most of their iCloud data, thereby protecting it with end-to-end encryption. Enabling Advanced Data Protection - The trusted device will send an alert to all devices that participate in end-to-end encryption. - At this point, the device begins an asynchronous key rotation operation, which creates a new service key for each service whose key was previously available to Apple servers. If the service key rotation fails, it retries the key rotation until it's successful. Advanced Data Protection and iCloud.com web access - iCloud web servers can no longer access the keys required to decrypt and display the user's data. - You must authorize a web sign-in on one of your trusted devices to ac...