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Secure Exclaves and Ambient Sensing


Introducing Secure Exclaves: protected and compartmentalized runtimes used to process camera and microphone data separately from the rest of the system. Isolation features added across many core components of the silicon work in tandem to protect Secure Exclaves and keep them segregated from the rest of the system. Data that is processed and analyzed in a Secure Exclave cannot be accessed by the main operating system, apps, or Apple.

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