So it turns out that natural text alignment in iOS doesn't mean "left-align left-to-right text and right-align right-to-left text" as it does in Android. For example, if I put English text in a UILabel I'd expect it to be left-aligned and if I put Arabic text in a UILabel I'd expect it to be right-aligned. But no. This is not how it works in iOS. Instead natural text alignment in iOS means "left-align text if the device's language is set to a left-to-right language and right-align text if the device's language is set to a right-to-left language". So, for example, if I set the device's language to English then the text in the UILabel will be left-aligned regardless of its content and if I set the device's language to Arabic then the text in the UILabel will be right-aligned regardless of its content.
For a super simple iOS application which demonstrates this see here.
Not true! It depends on the view's semanticContentAttribute, which can be set by the app. It defaults to being calculated via the device language.
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