iCloud Advanced Data Protection in Monterey?

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iCloud Advanced Data Protection in Monterey?

I upgraded my iPad and iPhone to iPadOS and iOS 16.3 today, and enabled iCloud Advanced Data Protection.

My MacBook Pro is from 2015 and can't be updated to MacOS Ventura, which is needed in order to enable iCloud Advanced Data Protection for this device. Therefore, my MacBook Pro was removed from iCloud when I upgraded to iCloud Advanced Protection on the iPad Pro and iPhone SE.

The strange thing is that I am still able to access my iCloud Drive files from Finder on the MacBook Pro running MacOS Monterey, even though the support documents states that iCloud Drive is a part of the new iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature.

How is it possible that I'm able to access iCloud Drive from my MacBook Pro's Finder when this device doesn't support iCloud Advanced Data Protection?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jan 24, 2023 7:16 AM

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LD150

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Jan 25, 2023 12:36 AM in response to chillar

Yes its a dead copy of what is/was in the cloud. There was never any direct contact with iCloud, just a client/server relationship. Files normslly sync with iCloud after saving, but not now. Copies are also backed up to Time Machine. If you had turned it off before signing out of iCloud they would have moved to the main part of your directory if you chose to keep a copy.

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LD150

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Jan 26, 2023 6:15 AM in response to chillar

If that Mac is no longer trusted and signed into icloud (because of the requirements) then they are only in the iCloud, on in the drives of any Macs that are still trusted, or in the Files app of iOS devices.

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