Ios Apps On Mac Arm

As of this writing there are four ios apps you can use on an updated mac.

Ios apps on mac arm. Third party developers will be able to release their ios apps on the mac starting this fall. Select your device and then choose the manage apps feature. According to apple since the ios apps were built on the same apple silicon as the upcoming mac hardware they will be able to run natively on mac os without any modification.

In an ideal world and an ideal world that might actually be coming you could just open up the app store on your apple silicon m1 mac and download ios apps. Apple showed this off. It remains to be seen whether shadow will debut an arm mac compatible app but it seems probable as the mac version of the app runs fine on hardware dating back to 2008.

Open the app store. Right click on an app. According to apple apps written for the iphone and ipad won t require any modifications to work on a new arm based mac.

You can now enter the iphone or ipad app s name into the search bar found in the top left corner of the window. You won t immediately see the app you re looking for this is because the app store defaults to only showing mac apps. This is actually exactly how it works.

Plug your iphone or ipad into your mac. Select library and then you ll see a list of all the apps that you own. When you install an old app your mac will examine the app and try to optimize it for your arm processor.

In the sidebar click your name and profile image. This might seem like a small change but it requires a ton of radical changes behind the scene. Aside from the adaption to the big screen the apps look and work exactly the way they do on your iphone or ipad.