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We have seen reports that apple can remotely enable icloud backups and then trigger a backup.

• Nextgrid 4y ago
  Do you have more info about this?
• nojito 4y ago
  Source? iCloud backups can only be triggered via your passcode which is secured against the secure enclave.
• threeseed 4y ago
  This doesn't sound plausible in the slightest. The only persistent connection Apple has that I can think of to implement such a concept is for push notifications. Which would be a massive security hole if a HTTP response to that daemon was capable of bypassing the lock screen, secure enclave etc. And the logical question is if they had such a system why would they bother triggering an iCloud Backup when they could ask the device to specifically hand over certain information e.g. Messages. Which at least could be done quietly over Cellular.
  • smoldesu 4y ago
    > Which would be a massive security hole if a HTTP response to that daemon was capable of bypassing the lock screen, secure enclave etc. I mean, Apple has killswitches for every iPhone they ship. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that suite of tools also included settings management (MacOS has such a thing built-in, fwiw).