The FBI is not happy with Apples new security update: here’s why!

Apple's recently announced security plans include increasing a range of new security technologies for its platforms, including the expansion of end-to-end encryption to additional iCloud data types.

The FBI says that Apple increasing security features on iphone"hinders" their ability to protect Americans, and again presses for backdoor access. This, plus iMessage identity verification and two-factor authentication of Apple IDs using hardware keys, will roll out globally during 2023.

Apple and the FBI have had more than their fair share of disagreements before. Speaking for the United states of America, the FBI told the Washington Postthat they were "deeply concerned with the threat end-to-end and user-only-access encryption pose."

"This hinders our ability to protect the American people from criminal acts ranging from cyber-attacks and violence against children to drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism," an FBI spokesperson told the company. "In this age of cybersecurity and demands for 'security by design,' the FBI and law enforcement partners need 'lawful access by design.”

The FBI and others have continually pushed Apple to add a way for law enforcement to see all data, and apple has consistently refused. It is not possible to add a backdoor that only law enforcement can use. Any backdoor, any type of encryption, effectively cancels all user privacy protection because bad actors will.

Users will have to manually go into the Settings app and toggle on “Advanced Data Protection” to add end-to-end encryption to these new iCloud data categories. That is likely to change at some point in the future, at which point we expect more complaining from the FBI and others.

This new security strategy is definitely a plus for all apple users and adds an extra sense of security to the minds of all users who were already very confident and boosted it for those who had their fears. Which means that even if the FBIs concerns are valid there’s no denying that this is a great update for the Apple product users.