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I mean it depends on what you mean by "possible". I'm pretty sure Apple has the technical capability to delete apps over the air. The more interesting question is what they're willing to do: are they willing to pull FB from every iPhone? I don't think so.

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If nothing else they could issue an iOS update that permanently bans the trusted root certificate, erases all apps, and directly blacklists the Facebook certs. Heck, they could even block connections to facebook servers at the MAC layer if they wanted to. And they could require users to install it to get future updates. Of course, that would never happen.

Apple can remove the app from the App Store but I'm pretty sure they can't delete apps over the air from a given phone.

If they can OTA update the OS they can delete whatever they want, all they need to do is call the internal API that deletes apps.

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