Use mobile apps on macOS

Run iPhone and iPad apps and games on your Apple silicon Mac.

Alex Blake

Ever since the first Apple silicon Macs arrived in 2020, they’ve offered an additional benefit – the ability to run iPhone and iPad apps too with no messy conversion required. That’s because devices like your iPhone, iPad, and M1 and M2 Macs effectively run on identical architecture – the major difference being that while Mac apps are designed to be used with a mouse or trackpad and a keyboard, iPhone and iPad apps use touch-based taps, swipes and other gestures. To get around that, macOS has a feature called Touch Alternatives that ‘remaps’ iPhone and iPad apps so they can be used with your Mac’s input devices. This should work with the overwhelming majority of iPhone and iPad apps, but there are exceptions. Developers can, if they wish, explicitly prevent…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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