• They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.

Is what’s being discussed. Since Apple has a backdoor in the default configuration of their phone, they’re able to comply with 90% of all data requests.

The UK is demanding they remove the option to disable the backdoor in their encryption

You can kind-of sort-of use local only, but Apple makes that very inconvenient and almost 0 users do