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Apple (iMessage, iCloud)

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End-to-end encrypted — out of scope — assessed 26 Jul 2026

iMessage is end-to-end encrypted and out of scope; the 2021 on-device photo-scanning plan was abandoned in 2022. Separately, Breyer’s tracking lists iCloud Mail among derogation services and Apple has said it checks mail attachments since 2019 — but Apple is not among the five providers filing the derogation’s reports. Both facts are recorded.

“prescreening or scanning uploaded content for potentially illegal content” — from Apple (iMessage, iCloud)'s privacy policy, as archived here

Sources: Archived iMessage security overview · Overview of derogation users (Patrick Breyer) · what this status means · dispute it

What we watch for — Apple's content is end-to-end encrypted, which keeps it out of Chat Control's scope. We watch for weakened encryption claims, client-side scanning language, or new qualifiers around E2EE in these documents.

Status in this archive: End-to-end encrypted — out of scope since 26 Jul 2026 — no status changes recorded.

4 documents tracked · no changes since baseline.

Tracked documents

Document	Last fetched	Size	Hash	Snapshot
Privacy Policy www.apple.com	26 Jul 2026	29,824 chars	649ba6e1308a	text · raw · wayback
iCloud Data Security Overview support.apple.com	26 Jul 2026	15,104 chars	069062bf5024	text · raw · wayback
iMessage Security Overview support.apple.com	26 Jul 2026	8,588 chars	4ecc06310c78	text · raw · wayback
Transparency Report www.apple.com	26 Jul 2026	17,503 chars	8b78da750b1e	text · raw · wayback

text is the extracted record we hash and diff; raw is the page's original HTML kept verbatim as evidence — it renders without its styling here, by design.

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26 Jul 2026 Apple (iMessage, iCloud) — Transparency Report baseline first recording
26 Jul 2026 Apple (iMessage, iCloud) — iCloud Data Security Overview baseline first recording
26 Jul 2026 Apple (iMessage, iCloud) — iMessage Security Overview baseline first recording
26 Jul 2026 Apple (iMessage, iCloud) — Privacy Policy baseline first recording