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Re:Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups afte... by gruez on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:10PM (#25778996)
>and not having to ever plug my phone into anything.

works over wifi too. https://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/ios-tutorials/backu...

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Re:Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups afte... by dkonofalski on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:42PM (#25780325)
Is that still accurate? You don't use iTunes to sync the phone anymore and I don't think the encrypted backups could be done via WiFi. If that's changed, then that's awesome.
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