It’s true that you can install any iOS app on Apple Silicon Macs, but for the majority of them, it’s much more involved than just launching the App Store. Here’s exactly how to do it.
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. This is actually exactly how it works right now — just not for very many apps.
It’s not only the handiest way, it’s the best in every respect. That’s because this only works when a developer has enabled it.
And a developer is not going to enable you to run an iOS app on your M1 Mac if it isn’t going to work. Nor if its interface is so tied to gestures like swiping and pinching that it isn’t very good on a Mac.
However, a developer is also not going to enable it until they’re ready. So if they’re tied up adding new iOS 14 features, they may not think about the Mac for months.
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