Originally Posted by kevs
What if your password could not remember down the road?

When you set up ADP you must name a Recovery Contact and/or secreted a copy of your Recovery Key in a safe location(s) off line. Apple can use either of those to recover help you recover.

Originally Posted by keys
But what the point of all this? Whatare the the big pros in all this? What is current status by comparison?

Currently, iCloud is encrypted but that encryption is vulnerable to a security breach at Apple. Advanced Data Protection is Apple's response to this vulnerability. With Advanced Data Protection, your information is uniquely encrypted using your encryption key and DoD strength encryption algorithms and Apple has no knowledge of your ADP encryption key. As a result, your data on iCloud becomes as secure as the data on your iPhone and like the iPhone no one, can access it without your cooperation -- there in no cryptologic back door.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein