Barr is shaping up to be Jeff Sessions II. Apple has made its position clear in the past. Public grovelling won’t change that.
Different issue then, in the past. Then, the FBI presented Apple with an All Writs Court Order requiring Apple to do something that was 1) not in Apple’s normal line of business which is what an All Writs order is normally used for; 2) required Apple to create a special custom FBiOS that could be installed on the target iPhone (read any iOS device with minor tweaking) and defeat the built in security; 3) give it to the FBI as a tool for their use; 4) and, by Federal Law, the 1993 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) was clearly an order that was PROHIBITED BY THE CLEAR LANGUAGE OF THE STATUTE! In fact, the SCOTUS had twice ruled on the use of All Writs orders prohibiting using them as Magistrate Judge Pym was attempting to use her order to require of Apple, ruling it was a form of involuntary servitude. You cannot use an All Writs order to force a third-party business to perform an act against its own business interest if it is not in the ordinary course of doing that business. In this case, Apple does not build and sell custom operating systems which compromise its security model, nor do they provide custom software.