this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
321 points (98.2% liked)
Technology
59428 readers
3547 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I just wished it was as easy as making apk files but for apple devices, I don't want to pay for an apple developer account every year so I could make a free app for my family to use.
In the meantime you can use SideStore to side load two apps on your iOS device. Down side you need to open the SideLoad once a week and renew access to your side loaded apps.
Didn’t realize there were multiple of these. AltStore works pretty well too
AltStore requires you to have a the AltServer opened on your Mac and your phone on the same WiFi to refresh. SideStore is branched off AltStore but allows to renew and install apps right from your iPhone (you only need a computer for the first install of SideStore iOS app, or if you to re-activate if you go past the renew date). I had AltStore before and SideStore is much easier to deal with imo.
For anyone looking to sideload on their iPhone without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account, look into Trollstore, if your IOS version is compatable, you can sideload unlimited apps thanks to the 2 coretrust bugs.
To use trollstore you need to make an IPA app. I use react native with expo which requires apple developer account to sign the app before compiling, or you need to own a Mac to use Xcode to compile, which no one in my family owns one.
What about a MacOS virtual machine? If you use Linux, SomeOridnaryGamers has a video on how to set one up.
Look into a tool called expo. Maybe it only works with react native, but I was using it to load an app I was building onto testers devices and I didn’t have a developer account.
Look into SideStore. It allows two apps to be sideloaded for free with app refresh without a computer.