Help/Support Can’t sideload any Apps anymore after Restoring

iOS_hAT · July 23, 2023

Device: iPhone 8 Plus

iOS: 16.5.1

Jailbroken: No

So, I was using a paid certificate provided by my friend and signed esign with it, and was running perfectly fine and enjoying sideloading my favourite apps (was on 16.5 at that time), then due to storage issue, I restored my iPhone using iTunes to latest iOS version (16.5.1), and then I setup as new and then I again signed esign using my private certificate and after just it got installed, I clicked on it, and it directly said ‘’Unable to Verify App’ instead saying me to turn on the developer mode’ this made me curious that what’s wrong with it? Developer mode was turned off as I restored device, so I turned on developer mode to on and after restating, I tried to open esign but it still showing same error, this made me more curious that what’s the issue with it?? Then, I restored my device again and setup and again repeated whole process and installed esign, but same ‘Unable to Verify App’ then I booted my windows laptop and opened sideloadly and entered my appleid and sideloaded spotify deluxe, but guess what, when I opened settings > general > VPN & Device Management > (my appleid) > and clicked on trust then it instantly said to ‘Verify App’ which is extremely unthinkable, unimaginable, and I was like … that’s impossible!
Restored my device again and sideloaded app using sideloadly, and same, it gets trusted but then instantly says to ‘Verify App’, now, I have no idea what’s wrong with it, actually when all things was running fine on 16.5, and 16.5 is latest version, I restored couple of times on 16.5 too, and it always let me install esign again and sideload any apps, but restoring to 16.5.1 was my big mistake, lose the ability to sideload any apps in my device ever.

Also tried to directly reset my device from settings and setup as new and that time I did not signed my appleid in iCloud or in Appstore, but… it’s same 🥹

Sideloaded Esign using custom cert

Sideloaded using Sideloadly

Rook · August 10, 2023

Hello @iOShAT,

You should check to make sure the time & date is correct on both devices.

Disabling and re-enabling Developer Mode may also help.

Updated August 10, 2023 by Rook

iOS_hAT · September 6, 2023

On 8/10/2023 at 7:40 PM, Rook said:

Hello @iOShAT,

You should check to make sure the time & date is correct on both devices.

Disabling and re-enabling Developer Mode may also help.

I checked time & date of both devices but same, even I restored 3-4 times to iOS 16.6 using different laptops, but still I can’t able to sideload any apps anymore, don’t know how, do you think it’s related because of iCloud bypass tool?

Rook · September 6, 2023

4 hours ago, iOShAT said:

do you think it’s related because of iCloud bypass tool?

It could be the reason.

iOS_hAT · September 7, 2023

21 hours ago, Rook said:

It could be the reason.

Then I just wait for Apple to allow sideloading soon as EU is forcing to Apple lol

josephbien · October 16, 2023

On 7/23/2023 at 3:24 PM, iOShAT said:

Device: iPhone 8 Plus

iOS: 16.5.1

Jailbroken: No

So, I was using a paid certificate provided by my friend and signed esign with it, and was running perfectly fine and enjoying sideloading my favourite apps (was on 16.5 at that time), then due to storage issue, I restored my iPhone using iTunes to latest iOS version (16.5.1), and then I setup as new and then I again signed esign using my private certificate and after just it got installed, I clicked on it, and it directly said ‘’Unable to Verify App’ instead saying me to turn on the developer mode’ this made me curious that what’s wrong with it? Developer mode was turned off as I restored device, so I turned on developer mode to on and after restating, I tried to open esign but it still showing same error, this made me more curious that what’s the issue with it?? Then, I restored my device again and setup and again repeated whole process and installed esign, but same ‘Unable to Verify App’ then I booted my windows laptop and opened sideloadly and entered my appleid and sideloaded spotify deluxe, but guess what, when I opened settings > general > VPN & Device Management > (my appleid) > and clicked on trust then it instantly said to ‘Verify App’ which is extremely unthinkable, unimaginable, and I was like … that’s impossible!
Restored my device again and sideloaded app using sideloadly, and same, it gets trusted but then instantly says to ‘Verify App’, now, I have no idea what’s wrong with it, actually when all things was running fine on 16.5, and 16.5 is latest version, I restored couple of times on 16.5 too, and it always let me install esign again and sideload any apps, but restoring to 16.5.1 was my big mistake, lose the ability to sideload any apps in my device ever.

Also tried to directly reset my device from settings and setup as new and that time I did not signed my appleid in iCloud or in Appstore, but… it’s same 🥹

Sideloaded Esign using custom cert

Sideloaded using Sideloadly

Ho! I got the same issue after updating my iPhone 8 plus from ios 14.8 to ios 16.7

Mine is not iCloud bypassed or anything. Never been jailbroken too. I tried sideloading from iosgods app and sideloady, but I get the same results as you. Does this have to do with the phone (since we both had the problem on 8 plus) or in ios16?

iOS_hAT · November 12, 2023

On 10/16/2023 at 10:11 AM, josephbien said:

Ho! I got the same issue after updating my iPhone 8 plus from ios 14.8 to ios 16.7

Mine is not iCloud bypassed or anything. Never been jailbroken too. I tried sideloading from iosgods app and sideloady, but I get the same results as you. Does this have to do with the phone (since we both had the problem on 8 plus) or in ios16?

I believe this has something to do with iphone or ios itself. I even tried 2 completly different icloud bypass but still can;t sideloads any apps still. even on ios 16.7.2. the last time I was able to sideload is on 16.5 and after that I restored and can't sideload at all. There's definitly something with ios itself.

1 minute ago, iOShAT said:

I believe this has something to do with iphone or ios itself. I even tried 2 completly different icloud bypass but still can;t sideloads any apps still. even on ios 16.7.2. the last time I was able to sideload is on 16.5 and after that I restored and can't sideload at all. There's definitly something with ios itself.

I also doubt that apple or a employe changed something or modified the ios ipsw files for specially iPhone 8 plus lol