The UK government has ordered Apple Inc. to build a backdoor to give it access to global user data, in a move that could spark one of the biggest privacy fights in the iPhone maker’s history.

Britain has ordered Apple to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple's data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.

In the earnings report, Apple said it had a gross margin of 46.9%, which is the highest on record, surpassing the 46.6% margin that it delivered in its March 2024 quarter. Gross margin refers to the profit from each product sold after accounting for the cost of manufacturing and delivering those goods.