Although Apple's mobile operating system has many good features, it lacks the flexibility of Android. In particular, compared to Android's APK system, installing apps on iOS feels very limited.
Recently, a new method of installing unverified apps (ie apps that are not in the app store) is now available on iOS.
The most important thing is that the application installed by this method will not be revoked, and the process does not need to be jailbroken.
Visit the official website:
https://altstore.io/
The new installation method is called AltServer/AltStore. Although AltStore has been around for a while, the latest version 1.3 now supports downloading applications through IPA files stored in the file application.
In fact, users can now download an IPA file or load an IPA file through iTunes.
Once saved to the iOS file application, AltStore can automatically locate and install custom applications.
The biggest advantage of AltStore is that it does not need to be jailbroken, so there is little danger in using this method.
At present, AltStore can also use the application developer permission system to avoid the possibility of revocation.
Therefore, AltStore users can now permanently install any application on the iPhone, even those that are not on the App Store.
In addition, AltStore uses a separate user license to install applications (and utilize the system), so revoking applications is not a problem.
Of course, this also has a downside: users need to refresh the installed applications through AltStore every 7 days and can only install up to 10 custom applications at a time.
AltStore is free to download. In addition, you can read more about installing AltStore/AltServer and how to use it on AltStore.io.
