For a short while when the M1 macs first released, people were successfully sideloading the iOS versions of Discord and Slack on them which were significantly lighter, but I think Apple has patched it now and it's not possible anymore
This will not work anymore since Apple blocked sideloading iOS apps natively on M1 Macs as of January 2021.
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> The change itself was made to the App Store system that delivers the actual .IPA file and it is all part of Apple’s APIs that manage the DRM (Digital Rights Management) protections of the operating system. Because of this, it’s unlikely that a workaround will present itself in the future.
Just look at the issues section, the same errors appear. [1]
> They’ve solved the technical problem of doing this without compromising security on the M1 MacBooks, so there’s really no reason not to.
You could say the same thing about sideloading apps and running web-browsers-that-aren't-Safari; both of those are "solved" on the Mac side, but I would bet that unless the EU forces them, Apple will never allow either of those things on iOS.
Yes. You can sideload an app with Xcode, but you're need a Mac/Hackintosh to do that, plus the sideloaded app needs to be re-sideloaded after a certain amount of time. The feature is more for developers than normal users.
I am running and using 5 iOS on my M1 Macbook and they are useful to me. I wished we could continue sideloading iOS apps, but unfortunately Apple blocked that. And it sucks that devs can block installation of iOS apps on the Mac, although it is technically possible. This is artificial limitation purely for commercial reasons. Bad.
I’m not taking about Availability of iOS App in the MacOS App Store that devs can opt in and out of. I’m talking explicitly about side loading iOS/iPadOS apps to MacOS. This was possible when M1 apps were released and then explicitly blocked by Apple after an update.
Sure... but "technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility" is not true in my opinion, you'd need quite a few changes to allow this to happen safely. Apple doesn't even want apps to be sideloaded, so that's a stretch :)
Oh yes, I'd should actually. Because the fruit company once told me that the machine will run ALL iOS apps and games on the App Store! [0] /s
Except most of your existing software wasn't available or did not work upon launch day and you had to wait 6 months for it to be stable. At that point why bother with an M1 Macbook when you can get an M1X instead.
[0] Only the ones that the developers allow and is ultimately up to them. And no you cannot side-load them either as of January of this year.
Sideloading on the M1 is fairly easy. @marcan42, who is developing Linux for M1, is very clear that Apple actively went out of their way to make sideloading possible in a secure manner.
Also, for everyone who says Apple is going to lock MacOS down, that's not going to happen with the M1 at least. The ability to run older versions of MacOS, alongside Linux support coming, means it's not happening. Despite what the conspiracy theorists say.
Well technically you can do that. Download code, build in Xcode, and install to your device. Probably not what you meant, but it does enable some side loading.
Sideloading an App is non trivial and not something that one would expect their userbase to undertake and it requires the user to have access to a Mac to perform it.
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