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Apple has backtracked on a plan to force iOS developers to encrypt their app communications by the end of the year.
The company had previously announced at its Worldwide Developers’ Conference in June that all apps submitted to the App Store will need to support the App Transport Security (ATS) feature starting on January 1, 2017. It has not yet set a new deadline.
ATS is a feature first introduced in iOS 9 that forces apps to communicate with internet servers using encrypted HTTPS (HTTP over SSL/TLS) connections. It's an improvement over the third-party frameworks that developers previously used to implement HTTPS because it ensures that only industry-standard encryption protocols and ciphers are used.
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