FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2013, file photo, a woman using a phone walks past Apple's logo near its retail outlet in Beijing. Even while it fiercely opposes the FBI’s demand for help unlocking an encrypted iPhone used in the San Bernardino mass shootings, Apple has never argued that it isn’t capable of doing what the government wants. While the FBI may have found an alternative solution in the San Bernardino case, experts say it’s almost certain that Apple and other tech companies will keep increasing the security of their products, making it harder or perhaps even impossible for them to answer government demands for customers’ data. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

NEW YORK | Apple wants a judge to delay government demands for data from a locked iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case while the FBI sees if it can get contents from a San Bernardino attacker’s phone without Apple’s help.

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2013, file photo, a woman using a phone walks past Apple's logo near its retail outlet in Beijing. Even while it fiercely opposes the FBI’s demand for help unlocking an encrypted iPhone used in the San Bernardino mass shootings, Apple has never argued that it isn’t capable of doing what the government wants. While the FBI may have found an alternative solution in the San Bernardino case, experts say it’s almost certain that Apple and other tech companies will keep increasing the security of their products, making it harder or perhaps even impossible for them to answer government demands for customers’ data. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Apple attorney Marc Zwillinger asked federal Judge Margo Brodie in Brooklyn late Thursday to postpone deadlines until the FBI reports to a California judge.

The government is scheduled to update a California judge on April 5 about its efforts to access iPhones without the company’s assistance. Investigators want information from a phone used by a shooter who with his wife killed 14 people.

Apple’s opposition to helping the government get phone data in the California attack and in a Brooklyn drug case has prompted a national debate over digital privacy rights and national security.