Apple is known for its strict data protection practices, but the company has been forced to downgrade its security in the UK.

Apple has removed its strongest iCloud data protection for customers in the UK, as a refusal to comply with a government ...

Apple has removed its Advanced Data Protection tool from use in the UK after a row with the Government over end-to-end ...

Security officials argue that encryption hinders criminal investigations, while tech firms defend it as essential to user ...

A few weeks after the UK demanded Apple to create a backdoor on iCloud's Advanced Data Protection tool, the company removed ...

Rather than comply with a UK order to make a backdoor into encrypted data, Apple has announced it will no longer offer ...

Apple will no longer offer its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) iCloud feature in the UK—what does this mean, and why is it ...

Apple is scrapping its most advanced security encryption feature for cloud data in Britain, the company said on Friday, an ...

Apple has discontinued its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature for UK users, removing a critical layer of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from several cloud services including iCloud Backup, iCloud ...

Thanks to the UK government, Apple can no longer offer new users in the UK the ability to enable Advanced Data Protection.

Apple first introduced ADP as part of iOS 16.2 in early 2023, offering an extra layer of security for iCloud backups. Prior ...

If a U.K. user has not already signed up for Advanced Data Protection, they will not be able to as of February 21, Apple said. Instead, those users will see a message: “Apple can no longer offer ...