Apple refused to comply with a federal court order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone 5C by one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino mass shootings that killed 14 and injured 24 in December. The FBI knows that it can not bypass the encryption on the iPhone, but it very well knows that Apple can make a way out that could help them try more than 10 PINs on the dead shooter’s iPhone without getting the device’s data self-destructed. Apple has always claimed its inability to unlock phones anymore but the FBI so cleverly proved that Apple does have a way to help feds access data on a locked iOS device.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/unlock-iphone-device.html