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.
If you’ve ever used an online signing service to sideload apps on your iPhone before, which is typically a one-year service provided by a third party for a fee, then you’re likely familiar with it becoming revoked. This occurs when Apple finds out the Apple Developer account is being abused and thusly closes the Apple Developer account so that the signing service can’t continue.
If you utilize tools like LiveContainer or TrollFools to inject hacks and add-ons into your apps for augmented functionality, then you might take an interest in a newly released and free tool called Forte by iOS developer Dr-Sauce.
Sideloadly, a popular sideloading application that lets macOS and Windows users install apps on their iPhone or iPad via a free Apple Developer account and without using the App Store, received an important update over this past weekend to version 0.60.
Riley Testut, the lead developer behind the extremely popular Delta emulator app for iPhone and iPad, introduced a new application for the iPhone on Thursday called Delta Camera, which allows users to take Nintendo Game Boy Camera-style photographs with the device’s built-in camera.
To this day, AltStore remains the most popular way for iPhone and iPad users to sideload apps, but it has the sometimes-pesky requirement of needing a computer, which isn’t always available when you need it most. For this reason, there have been several attempts to create a computerless sideloading alternative for iPhone and iPad users, such as SideStore.
While most people have either moved on with the fact that the Twitter social media network was re-branded as 𝕏 following Elon Musk’s acquisition, or they’ve simply moved to other platforms such as BlueSky, there remain a small percentage of users who can’t let go of what Twitter used to be and want their experience to remain just the same as it was.
In a major announcement shared to social media platform 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, the AltStore team said that it was celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of AltStore PAL in the European Union with a new version of AltStore Classic that users can acquire directly from AltStore PAL.
One full week ago, the AltStore team published a new beta build of AltStore Classic, the popular sideloading utility for the iPhones and iPads that allows users to install third-party apps on their devices outside of the App Store with their Apple ID via the free Apple Developer program.
AltStore Classic, the popular sideloading utility for iOS & iPadOS that allows users to install third-party apps on their iPhones and iPads with their Apple ID, received an important beta update on Wednesday that is now available to all Patreons to test.
Around a week ago, we reported about the implications that iOS & iPadOS 18.4 developer beta 1 had on the use of just-in-time (JIT) compilation for iPhone and iPad apps used outside of the native debugger, which would affect its use inside of sideloaded apps with the help of utilities like AltJIT, SideJIT, and Jitterbug, among others.
While perusing /r/jailbreak this past week, I happened upon a new and somewhat interesting release by Redditor /u/Smart-Ad-8635 called MySign that strives to be a convenient on-device sideloading platform for iPhones and iPads.
Have you ever wanted to spawn phony notifications on your iPhone or iPad from your favorite apps? If so, then a new and open-source project called Spawn Me by iOS developer ItsKofo might be of interest to you.