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Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
(arstechnica.com)
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Signal on iOS shows previews by default. It even reads messages over AirPods as they come in.
iOS must be doing something special here, right? They can’t be sending message contents through the same route as push notification metadata, or it would be breaking end-to-end encryption… right?
Correct, messages aren't E2E encrypted if the push has the data.
If there's any reason to preserve privacy the push only has an identifier of the message to be downloaded on the device. When it comes in, the device downloads it and then if you've allowed it, will show it on a notification