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It makes it easier to pirate your app if you enable that checkbox. macOS attempts to disable iOS apps when SIP is disabled to prevent this but it's not difficul
by NotPractical 7mo ago
It makes it easier to pirate your app if you enable that checkbox. macOS attempts to disable iOS apps when SIP is disabled to prevent this but it's not difficult to bypass [1]. I don't necessarily agree with it but this probably does factor into their decision process.
[1] https://github.com/paradiseduo/appdecrypt https://github.com/paradiseduo/appdecrypt
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoThat couldn’t be the reason. 90% of App Store revenue comes from in app purchases of consumables from games. This came out in the Epic trial. The rest of the most use apps are front end for services where the app is free. There are very very few one time app purchases on iOS where pirating would make sense
- NotPractical 7mo agoPiracy is not the only risk when someone grabs your app binary, but also cracked versions with ads removed, or subscription checks disabled.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoThey can already grab your binary by using third party tools or by using the Apple Configurator from what I’m seeing. TIL: iPhone backups on computers stopped including full ipa’s back in 2017…
- NotPractical 7mo agoThey're encrypted using FairPlay, so you need either a jailbroken iPhone or a "jailbroken" (SIP bypass while SIP is enabled) Mac to decrypt them. The former will stop being possible soon enough, the latter will likely remain possible for quite some time.