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> 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) ...

WeChat/LINE/AliChat etc all do their apps with JS in a webview, which apple explicitly allows.

Which is probably why Firefox Mobile on iOS can't have extensions, which is a shame.

I see, it's like when developers build automatic deployment into their apps to avoid app review.

Yeah but these apps are just html and JavaScript which is normally allowed.

Yeah Apple explicitly states that in their guidelines. Why would they ban it?