[harrygeez]

If every app need to poll different servers periodically or, listen for pushes, it will be a nightmare for battery life and be a big detriment to phone resource usage.

[idle_zealot]

Sure, but shouldn't this be e2e encrypted? You could probably come up with a scheme such that Apple doesn't know the contents, sending app or recipient device.

[JimDabell]

This is up to app developers to implement themselves. The mechanism Apple provides for this is UNNotificationServiceExtension, which allows an app to step in before a notification is delivered so that it can do things like decrypt it.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

[zarzavat]

It should. I am sure that Apple will be working on this now. It’s unfortunate that they didn’t implement it before. Maybe Apple itself didn’t realise that this data was being taken by the authorities, and the parts of Apple that did know were not allowed to inform engineering.

[notsylver]

That shouldn't stop them from encrypting the contents and making it intentionally difficult to draw conclusions from?

[thfuran]

You can draw plenty of conclusions from the metadata.