After the United Kingdom demanded that Apple create a backdoor that would allow government officials globally to spy on encrypted data, Apple decided to simply turn off encryption services in the UK rather than risk exposing its customers to snooping.

A backdoor into iCloud end-to-end encryption would defeat the purpose of the feature, so Apple is pulling it from the UK altogether.

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

Apple disabled its most secure data storage offering for new customers in the United Kingdom rather than comply with a secret government order.

Apple is scrapping its most advanced security encryption feature for cloud data in Britain, the company said on Friday, an unprecedented response to government demands for access to user data.

Law enforcement in the country was pressuring the company to create a tool that would act like a back door into customers’ data.