Sideloading apps means installing them outside of the App Store. You can use utilities such as AltStore, Sideloady, and Xcode to install .ipa files on your iPhone or iPad using just your Apple ID without the App Store review process playing any part in it.
You may recall earlier this week when we showed you a modified version of the unc0ver jailbreak app provided by iOS developer ichitaso with integrated permanent signing capabilities made possible by a new PoC by security researcher Zhuowei Zhang.
Sideloady, a popular alternative to AltStore for sideloading apps on iPhones and iPads, has received an update to version 0.26.3 that might be of interest to existing users.
AltStore, a popular piece of software used for sideloading apps on iPhones and iPads, is officially only supported on macOS and Windows. Still, that hasn’t stopped motivated developers from making unofficial Linux-compatible options.
There has been a lot of hype surrounding Zhuowei Zhang’s recently-released PoC because it allows apps to be signed on a device indefinitely.
A newer feature of the AltStore sideloading platform for iPhone and iPad is the ability to use trusted sources in the AltStore app to find and install sought after software that will likely never be present in Apple’s App Store because of its rules and restrictions.
Hot off the heels of the release of a powerful PoC by security researcher Zhuowei Zhang that allows sideloaded apps to be signed indefinitely, the Odyssey Team has now provided a package for Taurine jailbreak users on iOS & iPadOS 14.0-14.3.
Apart from the checkra1n jailbreak, just about all of the jailbreak tools released in recent memory come in the form of a sideloadable app, which needs to be signed using your free or paid Apple Developer account or a third-party signing service.
Apple released its first betas of iOS & iPadOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura shortly after the conclusion of the WWDC 2022 Keynote address. But one thing that users of sideloaded apps may have noticed after installing these betas is that some things weren’t quite working right – namely the Mail plugin and AltJIT.
While many are waiting for a jailbreak for the newest hardware and software combinations available today, we’ve witnessed an uptick in the number of legacy jailbreaks for older device and firmware combinations over the past several months.
A few days after releasing AltServer v1.5 with support for high-demand features such as multi-device support, AltJIT compilation, and direct app slideloading, among other things, the AltStore team is back at it again this Friday morning with yet another captivating update.
AltServer, the program used on macOS and Windows to sideload apps via the AltStore application for iOS & iPadOS, was updated to version 1.5 this Tuesday afternoon with some notable changes.
The practice of sideloading apps on the iPhone and iPad has exploded in popularity over the years thanks to convenient sideloading platforms such as AltStore and Sideloady. Unfortunately, most people are using free Apple developer accounts to do this, which limits the number of apps these users can sideload and operate to just three at a time.