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by 1over137 888 days ago
Is that yet another thing the mothership won’t let you do with an iPhone?
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I don't think this limitation is exclusive to Apple though.

As far as I know, there is no way to edit a hosts file on Android either. Is there?

I still consider it an Android bug that it isn't possible, even after all these years. The permission model on Android is pure nonsense.
Well... not directly without root, but you can host a DNS Server on Android and use it if you wanted to
You can do it on a GNU/Linux phone though (sent from my Librem 5).
Not without root
Theoretically if you setup something like nextdns on the iPhone you could set an override