Ios Apps On Mac Intel

Not sure if this has been mentioned here but on my intel imac app store keeps trying to install ios apps that i newly purchased on my iphone.

Ios apps on mac intel. At the moment that s the new macbook. On intel macs you hold. However ios apps will only run on intel machines if the developer compiles a catalyst version of their app which isn t really something i ve seen anyone interested in doing.

When apple introduced bitcode and made it mandatory on watchos and tvos they kinda hand waved away questions about why it existed with nebulous claims about it being useful to tune up binaries by utilizing the latest compiler improvements. Ios apps on intel macs. Wednesday november 18 2020 1 08 pm pst by juli clover.

While the company didn t share a lot of details apple isn t talking about catalyst its own. You already created a mac version of your app using appkit or mac catalyst. Why they have to bring one of the best features of arm mac to the intel mac.

Running ios apps with ipas running x86 homebrew apps accessing macos recovery and more. Mac users can for the first time run ios and ipados apps on the mac apple ceo tim cook said. Some apps have already done this such as instagram snapchat some facebook owned apps and apps from google which you can not find in the mac app store currently.

Ios apps on intel macs. Besides making arm apps running on x86 platform is infeasible. Translating an arm ios app to intel macos using bitcode.

The ios apps will be available on mac app store starting this thursday november 12 when apple will release macos big sur to the public. However you might choose to opt out of running your ios app on macos under these circumstances. Posted by 1 day ago.