The Love of My Life works at a very high-end specialty food shop. One of her co-workers formerly worked at a high-end specialty tea shop. The co-worker divulged the secret behind the very costly iced tea sold in the tea shop. Here it is:
Place a few teabags or a small amount of loose tea in a teapot. Add cold tap water to fill the teapot. Let the liquid steep at room temperature for about five hours. Pour off the finished tea into a container and place the container in a refrigerator. Voila! Iced tea!
That's all there is to it. Tea made in this manner is not as dark as tea made by boiling. Otherwise it's indistinguishable.
We add a lot of stuff to the recipe. We add a small amount of dried citrus skin (orange or lemon, grapefruit doesn't do it for us). Also we add a small amount of peppermint or spearmint. I'm sure there are a gazillion other herbs and spices that will be perfect. We just haven't tried them. We add stevia instead of sugar, but sugar is a natural. We do not stick strictly to the five hour routine. Sometimes the brew steeps overnight. There probably are a gazillion more variations on this theme that work.
The main point is that tea doesn't have to boil before it's consumed. If you do it the right way.
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