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The apps you install expire after a week. You need to reconnect your device to a computer at least once every seven days and reinstall the custom app. Also, you
by Wowfunhappy 5y ago
The apps you install expire after a week. You need to reconnect your device to a computer at least once every seven days and reinstall the custom app. Also, you're limited to three apps at a time.
It's not actually usable for anything. It's also a completely arbitrary and needlessly-punitive restriction—if I've opted in to installing custom software, why limit me to three apps at a time, and why make them only last a week? What security benefit does that provide?
- r00fus 5y agoFacebook has in the past asked users to deploy their Onavo app using this mechanism for their privacy invading VPN (2015-ish).
- radicaldreamer 5y agoI thought they used an enterprise certificate? Those are still available and easily can be used to distribute software without Apple review (but perhaps not for companies as high-profile as Facebook)
- neetdeth 5y agoThey are no longer easily available - presumably as a direct result of the Facebook incident. I'm sure there are companies still grandfathered in, but as a new entrant you'll be aggressively shunted toward either the B2B or consumer App Stores.
- wffurr 5y agohttps://altstore.io/faq/ https://altstore.io/faq/ is a pretty comprehensive way to make this actually work.