How To Use Ios Apps On Mac Big Sur

With the introduction of new macos 10 14 mojave apple started building ios like apps for macs.

How to use ios apps on mac big sur. Plug your iphone or ipad into your mac. Taking a page from ios and ipados big sur adds its own control center which displays icons for commonly used features on the menu bar click the control center icon. As of this writing there are four ios apps you can use on an updated mac.

Discover new features for maps and messages. The rumors were right. Select your device and then choose the manage apps feature.

The next method is more natural for many as you can just search for them in the app store. Aside from the adaption to the big screen the apps look and work exactly the way they do on your iphone or ipad. Enjoy the biggest safari update ever.

Select manage apps at the bottom of the window. Plug in your iphone or ipad to the mac. Use the new control center.

And get even more transparency around your privacy. Macos big sur elevates the most advanced desktop operating system in the world to a new level of power and beauty. What it also means for mac users is that in order to deal with the current lack of compatible and optimized apps for the m1 chipset macos big sur will also be capable of running iphone and ipad apps where users will be able to download these apps from the app store.

Apple is shifting away from intel in favor of its own apple silicon arm based processors. Whereas things are a bit trickier on ios it s actually incredibly easy to change a mac app icon. Apps designed for the iphone and ipad will be available for macos big sur by.