So Apple killed ios app sideloading on M1 macs

Was that not already made clear?

Returning to the original topic of this thread… the latest beta of macOS 11.3 (7, I think? Build 20E5229a) seems to prevent ā€œunauthorizedā€ iOS apps from running again.

I have tried removing the ā€˜quarantine’ flag, and I have tried opening it via sudo.

Other apps which are available for M1 Macs in the Mac App Store continue to work as expected.

Unchanged in Beta 8 (20E5231a).

11.3 ā€œRelease Candidateā€ still does not fix this issue.

You do not have permission to open the application ā€œeeroā€.

Contact your computer or network administrator for assistance.

The app appears to mount — translocated — because I can see entries like this:

/Applications/eero.app/Wrapper /private/var/folders/0t/c2rzlqzj0f73g7fzd79sjk640000gn/X/2B289CF7-CD03-57CE-9E97-F4D2EFBC614D (nullfs, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, nobrowse, mounted by tjluoma)

but that does not seem to be useful.

I can’t even run it under debugging (lldb):

% lldb /private/var/folders/0t/c2rzlqzj0f73g7fzd79sjk640000gn/X/2B289CF7-CD03-57CE-9E97-F4D2EFBC614D/d/Wrapper/eero.app/eero
(lldb) target create "/private/var/folders/0t/c2rzlqzj0f73g7fzd79sjk640000gn/X/2B289CF7-CD03-57CE-9E97-F4D2EFBC614D/d/Wrapper/eero.app/eero"
Current executable set to '/private/var/folders/0t/c2rzlqzj0f73g7fzd79sjk640000gn/X/2B289CF7-CD03-57CE-9E97-F4D2EFBC614D/d/Wrapper/eero.app/eero' (arm64).
(lldb) run
error: Cannot allocate memory
(lldb)

I’m not sure if Cannot allocate memory is macOS preventing it from running, or something else. But, considering this has been going on for several releases, I’m assuming that Apple is aware of this and chose not to ā€œfixā€ it.

I guess that means my air will never leave 11.2.3… it already feels limited with no bootcamp (I know, not Apple’s fault). but ios apps are the only thing that lessens the sting of no bootcamp.

If apple releases an Xcode, Final Cut and Logic Pro for the M1 iPad Pro, I am going to actually regret trading in my 2017 Macbook Pro for the Macbook Air.