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		snowwrestler 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol... It is extremely simple, actually. Don’t use “Messages in iCloud” and don’t backup your Messages app to iCloud, and Apple cannot see your message content at all. Luckily these are the defaults.

modeless 3 months ago [–]

It is definitely not the default to exclude iMessage from iCloud backups.

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