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Like it or not Apple may just say no. They already refuse to give Bluetooth access to background applications in a way that would be useful to p2p messenger. And AppStore inclusion is at their whim, which given their current track record in HK/China I'd be very skeptical about. So unless you are talking about users willing to jailbreak and modify core components of their devices support from application developers doesn't necessarily accomplish what you want.
That said, Briar developers said they are willing to give technical support to any independent party developing iOS client, they are just not planning to do it themselves. Which I find very understandable because:
If SimpleX decides to implement any form of Bluetooth messaging that's compatible with iOS it will be by necessity very restricted and there's very little the developers can do about that.