Two-tier encryption: Apple, the UK and the backdoor nobody is allowed to confirm

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This morning I came across an article on Macanorak that opens with a very simple example, one I’ve been turning over in my head for a while now.

Alice and Bill live in the UK. They have the same iPhone, they use iCloud, and they pay Apple exactly the same. Alice has Advanced Data Protection (ADP) turned on, so most of her iCloud data is end-to-end encrypted. Bill doesn’t have it, and he can’t turn it on.

Apple on Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)

Two-tier encryption: Apple, the UK and the backdoor nobody is allowed to confirm