Does Apple read your messages?

iMessage and FaceTime are designed so that there's no way for Apple to read your messages when they're in transit between devices. You can choose to automatically delete your messages from your device after 30 days or a year or keep them on your device indefinitely.

Can the government read iMessages?

But Apple can access iMessage content despite those messages being protected by the company's end-to-end encrypted architecture. As Forbes reported earlier this year, Apple can decrypt and provide iMessages to law enforcement when required.

Can Apple employees see your messages?

Contrary to public claims, Apple employees can read communications sent with its iMessage service, according to researchers who have reverse engineered it.

Does Apple track your iMessages?

Apple's iMessage for iPhone, iPad, and Mac always uses end-to-end encryption. Only the sender and receiver of the messages can see their contents. Photos, videos, and other file attachments are also encrypted. What's more, Apple's FaceTime service also uses end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls, too.

Can iphones see read messages?

On an iPhone

Apple's default text messaging app, iMessage, makes it easy to know if your recipient has read your message. There is one caveat. Both the sender and recipient must be using iMessages on an iPhone or iPad and have Read Receipts enabled.

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Can someone see my text messages?

Spy apps

Such apps can be used to remotely view text messages, emails, internet history, and photos; log phone calls and GPS locations; some may even hijack the phone's mic to record conversations made in person. Basically, almost anything a hacker could possibly want to do with your phone, these apps would allow.

Do Apple users get read receipts from Android?

Because when iMessage is turned off, you are using your messaging service as a straight text service, which is what an Android uses. Androids are incapable of receiving Read messages unless they do use an app like Whatsapp. They cannot receive them otherwise.

Can FBI get your text messages?

A recently discovered FBI training document shows that US law enforcement can gain limited access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services like iMessage, Line, and WhatsApp, but not to messages sent via Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, or Wickr.

Does Apple really care about privacy?

Unfortunately, in reality, Apple doesn't care about its users' privacy. Users' data is a valuable asset for any company, and no company would leave this wonderful opportunity to monopolize and capitalize on, including Apple.

Can police recover deleted iPhone messages?

Keeping Your Data Secure

So, can police recover deleted pictures, texts, and files from a phone? The answer is yes—by using special tools, they can find data that hasn't been overwritten yet. However, by using encryption methods, you can ensure your data is kept private, even after deletion.

Does Apple Go through your phone?

Apple says it will not gain access to the messages or photos, but it will use machine learning to determine whether a photo is explicit. Kids who are sending or receiving potentially explicit photos will get a warning asking whether they are sure they want to view the image.

Can Apple look through your pictures?

Apple's technology scans photos in your iCloud photo library and compares them to the database. If it finds a certain number of matches (Apple has not specified what that number is), a human will review it and then report it to NCMEC, which will take it from there.

Can Apple look at my files?

They won't be intentionally looking thru anything. They don't have the time or interest; they work on hundreds of laptops every week, and it's just a routine for them, so I highly doubt any of them search through people's files.

Can FBI see your iMessages?

The FBI can get “limited” access to iMessages and, with a search warrant, can “render backups of a target device” and, “if the target uses iCloud backup … can also acquire iMessages from iCloud” if the user has enabled it.

Did Apple unlock the iPhone for the FBI?

On March 21, 2016, the government canceled a hearing scheduled for the following day on the legal case in California. Soon after, the FBI unlocked the phone. Nothing of real significance — no links to foreign terrorists — was found. The government subsequently abandoned its legal bid to force Apple to unlock the phone.

Can police pull up deleted text messages?

Deleted text messages are usually retrievable from a phone, but before beginning the process, law enforcement officers would need to obtain a court order. Once obtained, officers can use mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs) to extract any data from a device, including emails, texts, images and location data.

Can Apple be trusted?

The answer is no, but don't blame Apple alone. You shouldn't trust any company — Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft included — with your private data. Instead, you should take control of it yourself, because that's the only way to be sure it doesn't fall into unauthorized hands.

Does iMessage sell data?

These messages don't count against your messaging plan. Messages sent via iMessage can include photos, videos, and other information. We designed iMessage to use end-to-end encryption, so there's no way for Apple to decrypt the content of your conversations when they are in transit between devices.

Does Apple track you like Google?

Unlike Facebook, Google and Amazon, Apple proudly proclaims that it "doesn't gather your personal information to sell to advertisers or other organizations."

Are deleted text messages gone forever?

But even if your deleted text messages are off your carrier's server, they may not be gone forever. When you press the delete button on your phone, the data that make up your message don't disappear in an instant. Instead, the code is marked with a sort of tombstone that indicates which data can be overwritten.

Where do text messages go when deleted?

The Android operating system stores text messages in the phone's memory, so if they're deleted, there's no way to retrieve them. You can, however, install a text message backup application from the Android market that allows you to restore any deleted text messages.

How far back can police track text messages?

4) Text messages

Text messages are treated like emails, according to the ECPA. That means, under this crucial and controversial law, officers must obtain a warrant from a judge for content stored by a service provider (like Verizon or AT&T) that is less than 180 days old, but not for content that's 180 days or older.

Can Android react to iPhone messages?

After the update, reactions from iPhone users will be sent as an emoji on text messages on Android. As on iMessage, the emoji reaction — like love, laughter, confusion or excitement — will appear on the right side of the message. (On Android, it's the bottom right.)

Can Android like iPhone messages?

Even though these two systems offer very similar features, they can't work across platforms. This means that new features like Message Reacting, Typing Bubbles, and Read Receipts will not work when an Android is texting an iPhone, or vice versa.

Can you see when someone is typing on iMessage?

One great feature of iMessage is that typing bubbles appear when someone you're texting with is in the process of responding to your text. Not everyone, however, wants to indicate that they're in the process of whipping up a reply. Unfortunately, there's no way to turn this feature completely off.