Do not let your messages leak.
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Updated on Jan. 16 with reports into Apple’s new messaging change for iPhone.
It’s all change for text messaging. The surprise news that Apple may add fully encrypted texting to iMessage as soon as with its next update fixes its biggest security gap. All eyes now on iOS 26.3 to see what is released and how quickly carriers enable it.
This is critical because U.S. federal agencies repeatedly warn that texting without the protection of end-to-end encryption is not recommended. Apple’s update — and the same from Google — will bring cross-platform, WhatsApp-like security to the stock messaging apps on Android and iPhone for the first time.
But even if you are using WhatsApp or Signal or another fully encrypted over-the-top messaging…