How iOS Restricts Features by Region: A Look at MobileGestalt and Eligibility

As agreed by many reviewers, the iPhone 16 series launched this year in a curiously “hollow” state: the heavily touted Apple Intelligence won’t be enabled until iOS 18.1 in October, and even then, it won’t be available to users in mainland China and the European Union. Indeed, this is just the latest example of iPhone features being fragmented by region. Against the increasingly complex landscape…