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[–] jammi ago  (edited ago)

iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) does it automatically since iOS 8. OS X has had that feature standard for a very long time; just go to System Preferences ➔ Security & Privacy ➔ FileVault ➔ Turn On FileVault...

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[–] e0steven ago 

Note that older versions of FileVault (legacy now) only encrypt the user's volume, not the whole disk

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[–] jammi 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

That was like more than a decade ago, which is in OS X adoption time like someone mentioned some Windows 3.1 or 95 limitation in Windows context. But yeah, the first version of FileVault encrypted the home directory as an encrypted disk image volume.