So Apple killed ios app sideloading on M1 macs

Was that not already made clear?

Returning to the original topic of this threadā€¦ 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€˜quarantineā€™ 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 ā€” translocated ā€” 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 canā€™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)

Iā€™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, Iā€™m assuming that Apple is aware of this and chose not to ā€œfixā€ it.

I guess that means my air will never leave 11.2.3ā€¦ it already feels limited with no bootcamp (I know, not Appleā€™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.