Read this to find out if Apple, Google, or your phone company might be able to see everything in your family group chat. Spoiler alert: Yeah, maybe!
The biggest encryption caveat is for the built-in texting apps on iPhones and most Android phones in the United States. Those are Apple’s Messages app, also known as iMessage, and the Messages by Google app.
If you use Apple’s app, texts that you send and receive are only end-to-end encrypted if everyone else in the chat is using that app.If the text you see is in blue, the contents of messages are end-to-end encrypted for everyone in the chat.But theare Apple’s warning. If you’re in a group chat with three people using Apple’s chat app and one person on an Android phone, no one’s texts are end-to-end encrypted.
Each of your mobile phone providers might save every word of your communications. Those companies could, in theory, read your messages, lose them to thieves or hand them over to police with valid legal orders.Your texts in Google’s chat app are only end-to-end encrypted if everyone else is using that app.
Google shows if your texts are end-to-end encrypted with signs such as a lock icon under texts and another on the send button.
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