[Windows/macOS] Introducing Sideloadly! - Working Cydia Impactor & AltStore Alternative!

Rook · May 13, 2021

22 minutes ago, iMacintoshPlus said:

I wrote my original comment in a confusing way. What I meant to say was that there is no option to set an M1 Mac as the install point, just an iOS device.

I do not understand. Please message me with a video if possible.

iMacintoshPlus · May 13, 2021

19 minutes ago, Rook said:

I do not understand. Please message me with a video if possible.

ARM-based M1 Macs can run iOS apps. The problem is that Apple no longer allows you to just install an IPA -- you have to download apps from the Mac App Store. Some developers like Facebook and Google chose to not list their iOS apps on the Mac App Store, meaning that I can't install something like Instagram even though my computer is perfectly capable of doing so. Sideloadly! allows you to sideload IPAs onto an iOS device, but not on an M1 Mac. My request is for you to add the ability to chose my Mac as an install point in the "iDevice" pop-down window.

Updated May 13, 2021 by iMacintoshPlus

Rook · May 13, 2021

1 minute ago, iMacintoshPlus said:

ARM-based M1 Macs can run iOS apps. The problem is that Apple no longer allows you to just install an IPA -- you have to download apps from the Mac App Store. Some developers like Facebook and Google chose to not list their iOS apps on the Mac App Store, meaning that I can't install something like Instagram even though my computer is perfectly capable of doing so. Sideloadly! allows you to sideload IPAs onto an iOS device, but not on an M1 Mac. My request is for you to add the ability to chose my Mac as an install point in the "iDevice" pop-down window.

I don't think Sideloadly is the tool for that. Someone will likely come along and "Jailbreak" the M1 Mac to run IPAs you're not supposed to.

To be clear, Sideloadly does work on your M1 Mac? You can sideload to your iOS device using Sideloadly?

iMacintoshPlus · May 13, 2021

3 minutes ago, Rook said:

To be clear, Sideloadly does work on your M1 Mac? You can sideload to your iOS device using Sideloadly?

Yes.

Rook · May 13, 2021

Just now, iMacintoshPlus said:

Yes.

Thank you! I'll mention this on the topic.

Rook · May 13, 2021

34 minutes ago, iMacintoshPlus said:

ARM-based M1 Macs can run iOS apps. The problem is that Apple no longer allows you to just install an IPA -- you have to download apps from the Mac App Store. Some developers like Facebook and Google chose to not list their iOS apps on the Mac App Store, meaning that I can't install something like Instagram even though my computer is perfectly capable of doing so. Sideloadly! allows you to sideload IPAs onto an iOS device, but not on an M1 Mac. My request is for you to add the ability to chose my Mac as an install point in the "iDevice" pop-down window.

This may be useful to you. https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-any-ios-app-m1-mac/

stas2230 · May 13, 2021

I think you missed the point. The method you’ve sent won’t work anymore, apple has blocked this since 11.3. Currently the only existing method for sideloading on m1 is Rickpacktor from appdb, but this comes with installing their profiles and I don’t really like it. I’m not an expert, but compromising my device only for iOS apps is not a good idea. But I think that maybe Sideloadly works similar way, it’s resigning app and deploy on device. It only comes with wrapping unpacked ipa into special folder structures and there are scripts for that. But I do also think that rickpacktor is using original apple installer app to deploy ipa on m1 so no scripting needed. If you don’t have m1 and need my help, just ping me, I was myself curious about this mechanism.