Ios Apps In Mac App Store

The app store is shrinking on purpose.

Ios apps in mac app store. About mac previews on ios 11 app store. Iphone and ipad apps will be available on the mac app store by default although developers can opt out of offering their apps there. That might seem bad.

Unfortunately though a report from 9to5mac has revealed that ahead of the new apple silicon mac computers being announced it appears that quite a number of major ios app developers have opted out of the mac app store. Which is why human app reviewers ensure that the apps on the app store adhere to our strict app review standards. The app store has more than one million apps and games for your ios device.

That s not necessarily the case. App store on ios 10 and earlier won t show mac app previews. A notice in apple s developer portal says that all new and existing compatible iphone and ipad apps will be made available in the mac app store on macs with apple silicon unless developers uncheck.

We found out that major developers like. In an app store story and developer documentation apple has explained how that will work. By default every ios app will be published automatically on the mac app store so the developer must manually choose not to offer their ios apps on macos.

Open the mac app store and do a quick search for the application you re got for ios the best option will be to get a version of the app that is designed for the mac rather than a. Our app store review guidelines require apps to be safe provide a good user experience comply with our privacy rules secure devices from malware and threats and use approved business models. This would suggest that quite a number of popular ios apps will not be compatible on macos at launch.

A developer might not want to make their iphone or ipad app available on the mac app store for a variety of reasons. From 2017 to 2020 the number of iphone apps in the app store declined. Open the mac app store.