Contact Key Verification (iCloud)

Contact Key Verification enables you to verify who you, and those you talk with, are. To enable Contact Key Verification:

1. Launch Settings.
2. Navigate to your iCloud settings. This is the first option with your name on it.
3. Scroll to the bottom and tap “Contact Key Verification.”
4. Follow the on screen prompts to enable “Verification in iMessage.”

You can disable Contact Key Verification at anytime by following these steps again.

Verifying Contacts#

To verify with another contact who has setup Contact Key Verification you can do so in two ways:

• Public Key Your public key is a series of letter, numbers, and symbols which are safe to share with others and verify your identity. You, and your contact, can exchange public keys and add them to the “verification code” field of each other’s contact.
• On-device From a conversation in iMessages tap on the conversation name and scroll to the bottom, from there you can see that status of Contact Key Verification and set it up using onscreen codes.