Trump's best media communications official is approaching Apple to make a move to help open security in catastrophic events. 

There's only one issue: Apple (AAPL, Tech30) says it can't. 

Ajit Pai, the administrator of the Federal Communications Commission, asked Apple to initiate the FM radio chips incorporated into its iPhones to "enable Americans to get indispensable access to life-sparing data." 

At the point when cell benefit goes down, as is at present the case in quite a bit of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, a telephone may in any case have the capacity to get the FM flag, if the chip is actuated. 

"Apple is the one noteworthy telephone producer that has opposed doing as such. Be that as it may, I trust the organization will reevaluate its position, given the obliteration fashioned by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria," Pai said in an announcement. 

The FCC executive at that point cited an article from a Florida production getting out Apple CEO Tim Cook by name after Hurricane Irma smashed through the state. "As the Sun Sentinel of South Florida put it, 'Make the best decision, Mr. Cook. Flip the switch. Lives rely upon it.'" 

Accordingly, Apple said its latest iPhone models don't have that alternative. 

"iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 models don't have FM radio chips in them nor do they have recieving wires intended to help FM signals, so it isn't conceivable to empower FM gathering in these items," Apple said in an announcement. 

Notwithstanding, Apple did not state why it wouldn't consider actuating contributes more seasoned iPhone models. 

"There's no reason from an innovation perspective not to do it," says Jeff Kagan, a telecom industry expert. Pundits recommend that Apple does not have any desire to undermine its own particular spilling administration by initiating the FM chip. 

"Apple thinks profoundly about the security of our clients, particularly amid times of emergency and that is the reason we have designed current wellbeing arrangements into our items," Apple said in its announcement. 

Pai's remarks on Apple come days after the FCC was condemned for not doing what's necessary to react to the emergency in Puerto Rico and the current sea tempests in Texas and Florida.