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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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EighthLayer@lemmy.world
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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.

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iMike@lemmy.world
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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.

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shebpamm@lemmy.ml
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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.

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PopShark@lemmy.world
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Same is true for telegram

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EliasChao@lemmy.one
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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.

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EighthLayer@lemmy.world
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Yes that’s what I was suggesting.

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