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You have been able to do this since iOS 10. You get a free developer certificate simply by having an Apple ID, allowing you to sign and sideload apps onto your
by willstrafach 9y ago
You have been able to do this since iOS 10. You get a free developer certificate simply by having an Apple ID, allowing you to sign and sideload apps onto your device.
- lisper 9y agoCan I side-load Cydia using my free developer cert?
- willstrafach 9y agoYou would need to modify it to install apps in a different way and to also sign them, and most things would not work due to root access being required, but technically you certainly can.
- lisper 9y ago> you certainly can but > most things would not work It should go without saying that the whole point of installing an app is that it work. It does me little good to have the binary sitting in the file system if it doesn't actually perform the function which it was built to perform. Developer certs != jailbreak. Apple could provide a jailbreak option, but it chooses not to, so people who want to actually control their own devices (a not unreasonable thing for someone to want IMHO) have to deal with Chinese hackers.
- goerz 9y agoThe free account is severely crippled. To seriously side load your own apps, you need a paid account. And I think that’s a travesty!
- willstrafach 9y agoNot all functionality is there, no doubt, but can you explain why you believe it is severely crippled? Works reasonably well for me.
- goerz 9y agoOh, I’m mostly talking about the 7 day limit.