Iphone Apps Work On Mac

The problem is that it needs to be your app in the sense that you developed it or at least have.

Iphone apps work on mac. Plug your iphone or ipad into your mac. Select library and then you ll see a list of all the apps that you own. Unfortunately at the time of writing there are no macs with touchscreens.

Later after you ve closed the app store you can open and run the iphone or ipad app on your mac by finding it in the launchpad or by using spotlight search as we did above. Apple has announced no such plans to bring the iphone and ipad app library to non arm models. Moving forward apps written specifically for the mac will function on both intel and apple silicon models.

Once the iphone or ipad app is installed on your mac select the open button. As of this writing there are four ios apps you can use on an updated mac. This is possibly thanks to xcode 12 and its ability to create universal 2 binaries which work on both processor architectures.

Not much work was required on the side of the developer to make ipad iphone apps ready for the mac. The app will open in its own window and run like any other application developed for your mac. Aside from the adaption to the big screen the apps look and work exactly the way they do on your iphone or ipad.

With the m1 chip all apple devices now shared a similar architecture. Select your device and then choose the manage apps feature. Right click on an app.

For a very small set of niche cases simulator is the best option for running an ios app on a mac.