@lykanthrocide Yes they can.

Apple has a remote backdoor into every iOS device via the "app store" and can install or delete any "apps" they want, plus can send a device a tailored update that does what they want and it will automatically be installed overnight or intentionally even immediately - meaning that if iOS didn't have any backdoors, apple can add them any time.

The same is true for mac os.

apple pretends to give the user the option of installing an update or not, but if they want it installed, they're going to get it installed.


google has a remote backdoor into almost every Android device via the google played store and can install or delete any apk's they want, or update the system root TLS certificates to any they want and as for google's own devices, they can put whatever they want into an "update" and probably force-install it.