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I believe Apple forbids running third-party code it hasn’t approved, with some exceptions for educational apps.

• davidajackson 7y ago
  I see, it's like when developers build automatic deployment into their apps to avoid app review.
• pat2man 7y ago
  Yeah but these apps are just html and JavaScript which is normally allowed.
  • EGreg 7y ago
    Yeah Apple explicitly states that in their guidelines. Why would they ban it?
• Fnoord 7y ago
  > I believe Apple forbids running third-party code it hasn’t approved, with some exceptions for educational apps. Exceptions list: 1) Content served over HTTP(S) such as JavaScript. 2) WeChat. 3) ...
  • rswail 7y ago
    WeChat/LINE/AliChat etc all do their apps with JS in a webview, which apple explicitly allows.
  • m-p-3 7y ago
    Which is probably why Firefox Mobile on iOS can't have extensions, which is a shame.