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iOS is just a more UNIX, better designed, Windows. Closed OS of American big tech. If you are choosing between those two masters, go for it. But if you don't want to be a serf to US big tech, or want to get the most out of old hardware, come find FOSS. It's a far healthlier relationship.
iOS is the iphone OS, which is extremely locked down
macOS (Apple's desktop OS) is something completely different (although probably with similar internals)
Both Darwin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
Which is why I sometimes call macOS "NonfreeBSD"
And Windows is "NonfreeBS"
PlayStations and god knows what is some closed BSD. Apple are not alone in eating the BSD free lunch and giving very little back for it. Kind of the point of the license. It's why Linux took over in most places, you can't just take because of the GPL.
On which handheld device do I run this majestic FreeBSD?
Oh you just know people has put NetBSD on a phone. Doubt it's been done with a GUI though.