The most game-changing feature of Apple’s latest iPhone model lies well beneath the bells and whistles of better screen resolution, device size and battery capacity. The company’s latest devices will be encrypted so that even in the event of a search warrant, personal information won’t be readily available.

The new iPhone was released just months after the Supreme Court ruled in Riley v. California that law enforcement must obtain a search warrant to hack into personal devices. While Apple must still comply with warrants, it has rendered itself unable to do much to assist police. In older devices, the company and its competitors built-in the ability to get around personal passcodes and access data. Now, the company is leaving access to internal storage solely to the phone’s owner. That means that police can no longer view personal information on devices, even with a search warrant, although data stored outside the phone, like backup files on cloud servers, is fair game.

The move has been praised by civil liberties advocates like the ACLU for combating the issue of privacy from government eyes, especially in light of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s unveiling of National Security Agency practices. The FBI, however, has said that Apple’s new security policy will slow down law enforcement’s ability to solve and prevent crimes.