{"id":501457,"date":"2026-02-26T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501457\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:41:07","slug":"apple-iphone-ipad-now-approved-to-handle-classified-nato-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501457\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone, iPad now approved to handle classified NATO info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s iPhone and iPad now comply with NATO\u2019s information assurance requirements, becoming the first consumer devices with this approval.<\/p>\n<p>That means iPhones running iOS 26 and iPads running iPadOS 26 can be used with classified information up to the NATO restricted level.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the devices can do so without needing special software or settings outside of using a device management service to supervise devices.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 are now listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ia.nato.int\/niapc\/Product\/iOS-and-iPadOS-26-with-Indigo-configuration_968\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NATO\u2019s Information Assurance Product Catalogue<\/a>. The catalogue highlights some of Apple\u2019s security features, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-ca\/guide\/security\/sec59b0b31ff\/web\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Secure Enclave <\/a>on Apple Silicon, used for encryption and protecting biometric data, Touch ID and Face ID, and <a href=\"https:\/\/security.apple.com\/blog\/memory-integrity-enforcement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memory Integrity Enforcement<\/a> (MIE).<\/p>\n<p>NATO approval comes after the German government approved the iPhone and iPad to handle classified government data following an evaluation by the Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, or BSI). The evaluation included technical assessments, comprehensive testing, and deep security analysis.<\/p>\n<p>MobileSyrup may earn a commission from purchases made via our links, which helps fund the journalism we provide free on our website. These links do not influence our editorial content. Support us <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3J3VJYp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s iPhone and iPad now comply with NATO\u2019s information assurance requirements, becoming the first consumer devices with this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1572,49,48,3693,1575,49364,61],"class_list":["post-501457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-nato","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}