The claim

““Apple is removing end-to-end encryption from iCloud globally because of government pressure.””

Apple is not removing iCloud end-to-end encryption globally; the change applies specifically to UK users’ Advanced Data Protection after UK government demands.

Apple announced it would no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP)—its optional end-to-end encryption for additional iCloud data categories—to new users in the UK and would require existing UK users to disable it later. This followed reports that the UK issued a legal demand (under the Investigatory Powers Act) seeking access capabilities that Apple said would undermine security. Apple did not announce a worldwide rollback of ADP; outside the UK, ADP remains available (where offered) and Apple continues to describe end-to-end encryption as a security objective. The viral framing is misleading because it generalizes a UK-specific policy/legal dispute into a global policy change.