Hardware Encryption Capabilities for Apple Hardware What Apple devices can report hardware encryption details through MDM. These values help confirm whether a device supports block-level encryption, file-level encryption, or both. When/Why FileWave can report Apple's HardwareEncryptionCaps value as part of the MDM security information returned by supported devices. Apple documents this value in the SecurityInfo response: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/securityinforesponse/securityinfo. How Hardware Encryption Capabilities reports supported encryption for iOS 4+ and tvOS 6+ devices. Passcode Present helps determine whether data protection is active on iOS 4+ and tvOS 6+ devices when read together with Hardware Encryption Capabilities. Is Recovery Lock Enabled reports whether Recovery Lock is enabled on Apple silicon Macs running macOS 11.5+. Digging Deeper HardwareEncryptionCaps is an integer that indicates the underlying hardware encryption capabilities of the device, which is one of the following values: 1: Block-level encryption 2: File-level encryption 3: Both block-level and file-level encryption This value is available in iOS 4 and later, and tvOS 6 and later. For a device to have data protection, HardwareEncryptionCaps must be 3 and PasscodePresent must be true.