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Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

iMessage isn’t a big loss in the UK. FaceTime would be.

WhatsApp pulling out of the UK would have the biggest impact. Almost everyone uses it here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm, it had swipe to reply for a while now, it’s coming to iMessage in next iOS… The only thing that annoys me about WhatsApp is the high picture compression resulting in low quality images.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you need to send uncompressed images send it as a "document" rather than an image. You won't get the preview but it'll be the same file as on your phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same is true for telegram

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WhatsApp also uses E2EE, wouldn’t also be targeted under this same legislation?

Meta pulling WhatsApp out of the UK would affect way more people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes that’s what I was suggesting.