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I'm not condoning Apple's decision to not perform end-to-end encryption on iCloud backups, but they would be pretty useless if they didn't include call logs and text messages. If I lose my phone and restore from a backup on a new one, I want my old text messages as much as any other piece of data.

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Google, not that I typically support things they do, found a way to do both:

https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9149304?co=GENIE...

As far as I know, appleid's have some kind of password/authentication system that could be used to encrypt backups.

It doesn't say it stores text messages? It says it stores text messages on Android which means they are not backed up.

It also says you use Android messenger which hooks up to Google's services.

The text messages have to be stored somewhere.

What text are you reading? https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9149304?co=GENIE... says

  What gets saved by Android
  
  The following data is backed up in your Android settings. You don't need to turn on Google One's backup to save this data.
  
  App data
  Call history
  Contacts
  Settings
  SMS messages

Note, "by Android", not "on Android" as you claim.

It's certainly technically possible for Apple to encrypt iCloud backups the same way that they do with Keychain and iMessage (when backups are disabled).

How did our parents thrive without permanent records of all their personal phone conversations?

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