Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, October 2nd, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored today by Calorie AI.

Leading off today, we learned back in February that the British government had secretly

ordered Apple to create a worldwide backdoor into iCloud.

Apple forcefully responded to that demand,

and it seemed from a development last month

that the UK had withdrawn its request altogether.

This week, however, we're learning that that's not, in fact, the case.

The backstory here is that by default,

some of your data stored in iCloud is protected by end-to-end encryption,

but not all of it. Things like passwords and keychain and health data, for example, is protected

by strong end-to-end encryption, while other things like photos and reminders is protected by weaker

encryption. In 2022, Apple launched the option to have all of your data

protected by end-to-end encryption with a feature known as advanced data protection. The UK government

had asked Apple to create a backdoor so it would be able to access end-to-end encrypted data

from iPhone users around the world, not just in the UK.

While the administration here in the United States indicated last month that the UK had abandoned

its controversial order that would have forced Apple to provide this backdoor, the Financial Times

reports on an important missing detail. The report says that the British government did indeed withdraw its initial worldwide order,

but has now replaced it with another one applying only to its own citizens.

It has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage services,

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