Why Apple does not allow an iPhone to do scan WiFi?

About 4 years ago, Apple pulled all applications that have enabled an iPhone search for WiFi networks. Why? (There was something for developers who use "Private APIs").

There are a number of tools available for analysis for Macs. I helped a café owner to untangle its WiFi (it had both an old, disconnected and a new active WiFi router, and had the same channels as the business side) and used my scanner for Mac to try to optimize my home network. But I still have a low coverage in some corners of the House. An iPhone would be a perfect device to determine interference and blind spots, because it is much more portable than my laptop. But Apple does not allow this use.

Why Apple does not allow this very convenient using an iPhone? I just read about a hack that allows it to display the power of a cellular signal in detail. But you can't do it for WiFi. It makes no sense to me. Apple could do this job if she wanted to.

Thanks for any thoughts.

-Winston

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