I've never understood the fascination with the iPhone, and neither does the NSA. Here are a couple of their powerpoint slides showing how little respect they have for iPhone fans.

Smart phones are the weak link on privacy today. They are extremely easy to hack.

Almost a quarter of mobile devices are exposed to at least one security threat after 30 days online, according to Skycure Ltd., an Israeli wireless security company. That rises to more than two fifths after four months.

At DefCon, where people should know better, they have a Wall of Sheep for people who refused to turn off their smart phones. So you can imagine what the NSA and CIA can do.

Democrat Ron Wyden, possibly the lone member of the Senate Intelligence Committee that actually cares about privacy rights, gave an ominous warning this week.

Wyden bluntly warned that even after the NSA scandal that started with Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the Obama administration has continued programs to monitor the activities of American citizens in ways that the public is unaware of and that could be giving government officials intimate details of citizens’ lives.
Asked if intelligence agencies have domestic surveillance programs of which the public is still unaware, Wyden said simply, “Yeah, there’s plenty of stuff.

That actually shouldn't surprise anyone, considering that Snowden only had access to NSA sources. He couldn't access CIA information.

For instance, the CIA:

* collects bulk information for international money transfers from companies like Western Union
* has a decade-old program for cracking iPhone systems including subverting Apple Store
* teamed up with the U.S. Marshal's Office to use phony cell phone towers called “Dirtboxes or Stingray” surveillance technology

And it keeps going on.
The Postal Service keeps a massive database of photographs of the front and back of every single piece of mail that is sent in the United States.
The DEA has its own mass phone surveillance program - separate from the NSA's - in which “phone records were retained even if there was no evidence the callers were involved in criminal activity.”
The Justice Department is developing a database to track vehicle movements around the U.S. in real time.

Despite knowing all these massive violations of privacy rights, Wyden says there is much more on-going that we don't know about.
Nearly two years after Snowden's whistleblowing, and more than a year after President Obama promised to reform the NSA, there has been almost no effort by the executive branch to stop the privacy violations.

Of course Congress can reform the domestic spying programs, and this week they took a step - in the wrong direction.

The vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, 14 to 1, occurred in a secret session inside the Hart Senate office building. Democrat Ron Wyden was the dissenter, calling the measure “a surveillance bill by another name”.
Senator Richard Burr, the committee chairman, said the bill would create avenues for private-to-private, private-to-government and government-to-private information sharing.

This is probably one of the more under-reported aspects of the domestic spying issue - the private sector.
So far the tech companies have tried to show themselves as innocent victims of the security state, when in fact the opposite is true.

Contractors like Lockheed Martin aren’t a subordinate extension of the national security state. Quite the opposite. It’s probably more accurate to conclude that intelligence agencies, like the NSA, represent a public sector appendage of a much larger corporate power structure whose nexus resides in profound sources of wealth and influence outside of the government. A Deep State, if you will, that’s fundamentally driving what goes on in Washington...
According to the Intercept’s worldview hi-tech companies are but helpless pawns being coerced and assailed by runaway security services rather than willing symbiotic accomplices that directly benefit from the global panopticon.

Remember that the tech companies never made a public complaint until Snowden's whistleblowing exposed them to bad press. And now, after two years, they have somehow not managed to push reforms on the "all-powerful government", despite the fact that corporations often write the laws that Congress passes.
Somehow I doubt that the tech companies are that weak and powerless.