Apple has flipped the necessary sever-side switch to block iPhone and iPad applications from being installed on Apple Silicon Macs. For all users with Mac OS Catalina: Apple removed support for 32 bit apps on Catalina, so the Universal Binary of Halo for Mac, like many. Many people were using tools such as iMazing to complete this process.ĩto5Mac has now confirmed that, starting today, this is no longer possible unless the application is available on the Mac App Store.
This is the path that many developers have taken, making the necessary change in App Store Connect to remove their app from the Mac App Store.īut with that being said, until today, you could manually install iOS apps like Netflix, Instagram, and Facebook on an M1 Mac by using their respective IPA files downloaded under a valid Apple ID. No need to install any Linux distribution, simply open the URL in a web browser.
Along with automatically converting unsupported files to Apple supported file formats, WALTR also puts the audio and video files copied from your Mac into the native Music and Video apps respectively. This means that it is no longer possible to use an app such as iMazing to side load unsupported applications from your iPhone or iPad to your M1 Mac.Īs a refresher, Apple Silicon Macs allow users to run iOS and iPad applications on their Mac, but developers can opt out of allowing their apps to be installed on the Mac. Emulators make it easy to run and test iOS apps on Windows PC or Mac. WALTR is a desktop app that lets you directly transfer music and videos from your Mac to your iOS device without using iTunes, via drag-and-drop. Now, Apple has officially flipped the server-side switch to implement this change. We don’t expect this to last long, so if there are any iPhone or iPad apps you want on your Mac, download them sooner rather than later using iMazing.Įarlier this week, 9to5Mac reported that Apple would soon start blocking users from side loading iPhone and iPad applications to their M1 Macs. Now, if you own an Apple Silicon Mac (the newer ones with an M1 processor) and have the Big Sur iOS, you’ll have able to run iPhone and iPad apps on your Mac computer.
Update January 19, 2021: Apple has reverted this server-side change, and it is once again possible to side-load unsupported iPhone and iPad apps on an M1 Mac. For years, if Apple users wanted to run their favorite iOS apps on their computer, they’d have to do so via third-party applications, emulators, or other non-official methods.