CybersecurityUpdated November 5

Apple plans to check iCloud link shares.

With “Anyone with the Link,” the link itself is enough for someone to access a shared iCloud item. Apple says it will begin checking those items for “harmful content” with version 27.3 or later of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. The change also alters who can access them: items shared this way will be accessible to Apple for the checks and will no longer have end-to-end encryption. That privacy trade-off applies to this sharing setting, not to everything in iCloud. Apple’s support document also doesn’t explain what counts as “harmful content.”

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Coverage started November 4