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Advanced Data Protection & access on www.icloud.com

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Hey everyone.

Can someone tell me whether emails can be accessed in the browser at www.icloud.com -- even if

- Advanced Data Protection is enabled
- and without being able to allow temporary web access?

I'm asking because I would like to know whether I can access iCloud emails even if, for example, my iPhone is stolen.

(I don't have an iPhone yet.)
 
No, you cant. I find their implementation lacking, considering other clients offer decryption in the browser, like protonmail, mega and some crypto wallets. Anyhow, it never bothered me because I have my icloud mail configured to forward everything to my gmail but yeah, less than ideal.
 
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mikeszf said:
No, you cant. I find their implementation lacking, considering other clients offer decryption in the browser, like protonmail, mega and some crypto wallets. Anyhow, it never bothered me because I have my icloud mail configured to forward everything to my gmail but yeah, less than ideal.
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Have you tried it recently?
 
@fwmireault Yes, thank you very much for your answer. I just can't understand why I was told by two other people that it definitely works. I also asked several times. Maybe there are regional differences? But to be honest, I can't imagine that.
 
When Advanced Data Protection is turned on, you CAN access your iCloud mail as it is one of the items that is NOT protected by Advanced Data Protection. There's some misinformation going on in this thread.

Contacts is another one of those things that is NOT protected by Advanced Data Protection.
 
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msackey said:
When Advanced Data Protection is turned on, you CAN access your iCloud mail as it is one of the items that is NOT protected by Advanced Data Protection
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This is just untrue. Go to iCloud.com with ADP enabled, you will not be able to access any iCloud data online. You’re right that calendar, mail, contact etc are not protected by ADP, but Apple still disable web access to those services with ADP enabled, except if you turn on web access.
 
fwmireault said:
This is just untrue. Go to iCloud.com with ADP enabled, you will not be able to access any iCloud data online. You’re right that calendar, mail, contact etc are not protected by ADP, but Apple still disable web access to those services with ADP enabled, except if you turn on web access.
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Ok, I have web access turned on. So perhaps that's what allows me to have access to it. I haven't tested turning it off.
 
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msackey said:
Thanks for the correction. I misread the OP.
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I think you understood me correctly. My question was whether I can access the non-encrypted data (mail, contacts and calendar) via www.icloud.com under the following conditions:

1. Advanced Data Protection is activated.
2. Web Access is allowed.
3. No trusted device at hand.

According to this support document (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102630) it is apparently not possible because access to each category must be granted individually and for a maximum of one hour *from a trusted device*.

That makes sense for the encrypted categories, such as photos, notes and reminders.

But that doesn't really make sense for mail, contacts and calendar because these categories are not encrypted when ADP is activated.
 
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