They don't need to ask for any backdoor, there are existing solutions already like Pegasus. It was recently used by Polish government ruling party to spy on opposition under the pretense of looking for 'Russian spies'. Considering our not-very-smart government managed to get it, I can bet people who are actually qualified can do much more already.
Didn't the FBI ask Apple to do that already and Apple refused?
Well those are the ones we hear about. I think there's a lot of state-level spying in many software and hardware devices, but of course we don't hear about it
Sure there's a lot of state-level spying. NSO Group et al. That doesn't mean Apple is complicit.
No need to ask, just get a job at Apple, same as every major company