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iOS has always used the same kernel as macOS.



Sure, it's all Darwin, but userspace matters a lot - you can do lots of things on MacOS that you can't do on iOS (JIT, arbitrary web engines, assorted emulators, pop a root shell and load arbitrary kernel modules)


And that helps i.e. Docker how?


iOS XNU is compiled with different features than macOS XNU.


They are mostly the same.




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