

This is not the end for Apple's court battles with the US government, however.

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The spokewoman refused to disclose who provided the password to unlock the phone.

"In this case, an individual provided the department with the passcode to the locked phone at issue." In that case, the FBI managed to crack the iPhone 5c with help from an unnamed third-party, paying it $1.3 million.Ī DoJ spokeswoman, Emily Pierce, said in a statement to Bloomberg: "These cases have never been about setting a court precedent. This case was similar, but not directly related, to a high-profile case concerning the iPhone of a San Bernardino gunman. It had admitted that it had not exhausted all other avenues to open the device earlier this month.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has now dropped the case against Apple, sending a four-sentence letter to the judge explaining that it had obtained a password to unlock a New York drug dealer's iPhone by hand.
