In a bid to boost its surveillance efforts, the UK Government's Home Office reportedly requested a ‘backdoor’ be built into Apple’s end-to-end encryption to allow law enforcement agencies access to user data.
Apple refused the request, doubling down on its promise to never build a master key to any service - but didn't stop there, and pulled the service from users altogether, meaning as of February 2025, UK users have lost the company's Advanced Data Protection feature for cloud storage services.
