Yes. They never gave away content of emails, because they couldn’t even if they wanted to. It’s encrypted.

They gave the recovery email for the account to the authorities, which was an iCloud account tied to the user’s real name.

+1 for iPhone. Is it as private as GrapheneOS? No. Is it more private than almost all out of the box android phones? Yes.

Apple still use a lot of your data, although they at least claim to anonymise most of it. But that data stays internal to try boost more apple sales, and isn’t sold to other companies. I’d rather 1 company have my information than 100.

Any apple apps you don’t want are easily removed once it’s set up and they don’t come back with updates etc.

The word simplex is not common in normal everyday English, unless you happen to be talking about the Herpes Simplex Virus.

The association between Simplex and Herpes is not a hard one to make, as noted by all the other comments.

I’d rather not discuss Simplex vs Signal with someone who tries to give off ‘big brain’ energy instead of realising the social norms of holding conversations.

Not everything is literal my dude.

What an awful name though. Why would you name a messaging app after herpes?

But you posted it to a privacy sub

I’m not sure of an app that does it (unless you want to use photoshop etc,but even that will likely try store it in the cloud).

I’d just ask the person to resend it. HEIC is the format used by iPhones. They can send it as a jpeg (they need to copy>paste it, not just press share).

For those who didn’t read the article and only this post and are a bit confused: her account was used to sell counterfeit goods and not used to make purchases. NBA/Adidas sued for IP infringement for selling the counterfeits.