The company has always had some trouble with their restrictive views on their operating system, as they traditionally try to keep their users as limited as possible in some regards, often under the pretext that it’s for their own safety.
However, in many of these cases users have been displeased with the lower range of features that they have access to due to these restrictions, compared to other popular mobile operating systems, and Apple have sometimes responded by tightening the grip even further.
The company is, for example, vehemently against the idea of “jailbreaking” iOS devices, which is their operating system’s equivalent of “rooting” in Android, or in other words giving the user complete access to the operating system so they can make changes as they see fit.
Apple have explained that this can open up the doors to various potential security issues, and while that’s true, the cost of losing control over one’s device has been a disappointing consequence for many. Here are indeed some people who claim that Apple should ideally reverse their stance and give their users more options. But looking at the current situation with the recent iOS patch, it definitely doesn’t look like they have any such plans, and if anything, we would expect them to become even more active in chasing after people trying to perform unauthorized changes to the operating system.