You could manually install iPhone and iPad apps on an M1 Mac, and it wasn’t hard to do at all. Apple has essentially disabled the “feature” of sideloading apps. What began as a change discovered in the code of the macOS Big Sur beta, now appears to be live. It was just a rumor at the time, but now it appears it’s officially official.Īs first reported today by 9to5Mac, Apple is now blocking owners of M1-equipped Macs (the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini) from sideloading unsupported iPhone and iPad apps onto their machines. It didn’t come with any major forward facing new features, but it did appear to take one away. In the future, we'll likely have far more iOS apps that are also designed with Macs in mind, but for now, these options provide ways to access and use your favorite iOS apps on Mac devices.Earlier this week, Apple seeded the latest developer (and public) beta of macOS 11.2 Big Sur. If you're planning to download and use apps like Hulu and Netflix, be warned that there's no option to put these apps in fullscreen mode to watch content, but there is an option to download content for offline usage just like on an iPhone or iPad. For the most part, iOS apps seem to work well on the Mac even when not optimized. From the Applications folder, click on the app icon to install the app.Īpps installed this way are not optimized for M1 Macs and macOS in any way and are designed for touchscreen devices, so expect to run into some bugs and issues when using them. ![]()
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