which is why you use iMessage whenever possible

bduerst · on May 8, 2019

Doesn't matter if you're a Chinese user on an iPhone:

>Fast forward to today: China Telecom, a government owned telco, is taking over the iCloud data from Guizhou-Cloud Big Data. This essentially means that a state-owned firm now has access to all the iCloud data China-based users store, such as photos, notes, emails, and text messages.

https://mashable.com/article/china-government-apple-icloud-d...

fjp · on May 8, 2019

You don't have to back anything up to iCloud. You can keep on your locked device and backup elsewhere.

My point was that iMessage is an easy way to have your default mode of messaging be E2E encrypted