Apple Inc. will no longer be forced to provide a so-called backdoor to American users’ data to the UK government, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday in a post on X.

Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud. U.S.

In February, Apple pulled its Advanced Data Protection end-to-end iCloud encryption from British customers' devices after the government requested access to the data. Following the events of the British government pressuring Apple to build a "backdoor" to allow government authorities to access user iCloud data.