--- title: Britain didn’t drop its Apple backdoor. It cut the... description: The UK government has reissued a secret technical capability notice against Apple, this time narrowed to UK users only after its original 2025 demand — which... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/britain-didn-t-drop-its-apple-backdoor-it-cut-the-americans-out-and-tried-again--srvqan16b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Britain didn’t drop its Apple backdoor. It cut the Americans out and tried again. | daily.dev og:description: The UK government has reissued a secret technical capability notice against Apple, this time narrowed to UK users only after its original 2025 demand — which... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/britain-didn-t-drop-its-apple-backdoor-it-cut-the-americans-out-and-tried-again--srvqan16b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SrVQaN16B.png og:image:alt: Britain didn’t drop its Apple backdoor. It cut the Americans out and tried again. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Britain didn’t drop its Apple backdoor. It cut the Americans out and tried again. **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The UK government has reissued a secret technical capability notice against Apple, this time narrowed to UK users only after its original 2025 demand — which covered users worldwide including Americans — sparked a transatlantic diplomatic dispute. Apple has filed a fresh challenge at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, with a hearing set for September. Apple disabled iCloud Advanced Data Protection for UK users in February 2025 rather than comply with the original order. Critics argue that a backdoor limited to British users is still a backdoor, and that British data routinely contains Americans' communications anyway. Apple maintains it has never built a backdoor and never will, while the UK Home Office frames the demand as a proportionate law enforcement tool with judicial oversight. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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