On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:29:17 -0500, nospam wrote:

As far as anyone can tell, it's impossible to get the cell id tower from
the phone on an iOS device,

wrong.

Certainly, technically competetent iOS users have tried over the years...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...ork-in-ios-5-1
https://blog.hqcodeshop.fi/archives/...Test-mode.html
http://www.ahmadrifky.com/ict-stuff/...-split-seconds
https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

Even iOS app developers have tried...
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/21018
https://sourceforge.net/p/dpfdelphiios/tickets/232/

What do you know that they don't know?