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by hitmyapi 1692 days ago
It could potentially be "feature flagged". The client could ship a new version with all the resources/code they need for a specific feature, but a setting on the back-end determines if the feature is enabled or not. That way, Apple could easily toggle this feature on at any point by changing the flag's value on the back-end, without needing to ship an entirely new 15.x.x binary