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Most likely the Human Interface Guidelines that Apple enforces for all of their software is a major enabler for this, as it mandates minimum touch areas and spacing that should eliminate that type of issues. No other platform has as much native UI adoption - used to be the case for Mac too until Electron and others came along.

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Do minor platforms count? I suspect Sailfish has higher native UI adoption. IIRC back when I had a Sailfish phone, all the apps I used including the third-party ones used the same standard UI elements.

They probably meant out of the platforms Apple competes with. Presumably I could find a platform with, say, 12 users and only 1 non-native app, and if that app followed native UI guidelines I could say it has 100% native UI adoption and thus the “highest” out of every platform ever, but that is a useless statement.

You forgot watchOS, where you literally cannot design a non-native app.

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