The UK government has backed down on a controversial demand for Apple to build a “back door” into its technology to access private user data following pressure from the Trump administration.

The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

A pple will not be required to provide an encryption backdoor in the UK, easing concerns about weakened privacy and security safeguards. The announcement was made by US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on social media late Monday evening.

The UK has dropped its demand that Apple create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

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

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.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the British government order “would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens.”

Tulsi Gabbard said that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance also participated in the negotiations with the U.K. government over its once-secret demand to Apple.

Writing in a post on X, Gabbard said she had been working closely with the UK, President Trump, and Vice-President Vance to reach a deal that

UK officials are no longer compelling Apple to create backdoor access to its users' data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Apple CEO Tim Cook kept his August winning streak alive as the US backed Apple against the UK in an encrypted user data dispute.