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What does “encrypted on your iPhone” mean?

Pattern encryption

Draw a shape on a 5×5 grid. 600,000 rounds of PBKDF2 and a secret kept in this iPhone’s Keychain turn it into the key that unwraps a random 256-bit vault key.

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Recovery code

Every vault gets a 256-bit recovery code. It opens a separate encrypted copy of the vault key, so a forgotten pattern never means lost photos, and nobody else holds a key.

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Hidden vaults

Each pattern opens its own encrypted vault, and there is no list of vaults anywhere. The screen shows only the vault you opened; what storage can still reveal is documented.

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