The scandal between Apple and the FBI motivates the American company to improve security iCloud so much so that no one will be able to access user data without their consent, not even the Apple company, so the FBI will no longer be able to see any information from iDevice backups.
If at the moment the Apple company has a universal key that it uses to decrypt iDevice backups in order to access user data at the request of the authorities, in the future this will be impossible because Apple will no longer hold a master key for data decryption.
Basically, Apple wants to make the data in iCloud impossible to access without the consent of the users, as is happening now with the data in iDevices locked with a security code, and this change could affect the possibility of recovering data from backups.
More precisely, if Apple will no longer have access to a universal key for decrypting backups, this means that each backup will only be able to be decrypted by the Apple ID with which it was made, and in this situation, users would could have big problems in recovering data in case of lost passwords, etc.
Apple Inc. has refused federal requests to help unlock the phone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. But the company turned over data from his phone that Mr. Farook had backed up on its iCloud service. Soon, that may not be so simple. Apple is working to bolster its encryption so that it won't be able to decode user information stored in iCloud, according to people familiar with the matter.
How long it will take until Apple activates this new security system for iCloud no one knows, but probably iOS 10 will have it available and from then on no one will be able to access users' iCloud data without their Apple ID password.
