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My current frontrunner 2FAS offers syncing among iOS/iPadOS devices via iCloud. A few 2FAS discussions I’ve come across have mentioned iCloud Advanced Data Protection.

It's worth noting, however, that Advanced Data Protection doesn't apply to all iCloud data. iCloud Mail, Contacts, Calendar aren't end-to-end encrypted because they need to interoperate.

Health data and iCloud Keychain, for instance remain protected, as do 12 other data categories. But for the other nine categories, standard data protection will apply instead.