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Thanks for creating this amazing tool. A requirement for it to work is disabling "Advanced Data Protection". What are the implications of doing this?
by wappieslurkz 9mo ago
Thanks for creating this amazing tool.
A requirement for it to work is disabling "Advanced Data Protection". What are the implications of doing this?
- gerdemb 9mo agoThat’s a good question. To be completely honest, I don’t know much about Advanced Data Protection myself, and I didn’t do anything specific in the app to detect or interact with it. I’m actually curious: how did you discover that it doesn’t work when Advanced Data Protection is enabled? Was it through an error message, incomplete backups, or something else you noticed?
- wappieslurkz 9mo agoI did not discover it, disabling ADP is listed under "iCloud Prerequisites" on the/your GitHub page.
- klausa 9mo agoThe app that the person you're replying to ('gerdemb) created (Photos Backup Anywhere) is different than the open-source CLI tool that is the HN submission (icloud_photos_downloader).
- wappieslurkz 9mo agoAha, thanks. That's good to know.
- BeastMachine 9mo agoPretty severe -- ADP allows users to store data with e2e encryption. Disabling ADP is a pretty serious* thing to do -- and pretty disappointing since I was interested in the product. Since it's OSS though this might be something that can be worked around in the future.
- wappieslurkz 9mo agoThanks for confirming my hunch. I'd be surprised if it would be possible to work around this.