Use mobile apps on macOS
MacFormat UK|September 2023
Run iPhone and iPad apps and games on your Apple silicon Mac
Alex Blake
Use mobile apps on macOS

Ever since the first Apple silicon Macs arrived in 2020, they’ve offered an additional benefit - the ability to run iPhone and iPad apps too with no messy conversion required. That’s because devices like your iPhone, iPad, and M1 and M2 Macs effectively run on identical architecture – the major difference being that while Mac apps are designed to be used with a mouse or trackpad and a keyboard, iPhone and iPad apps use touch-based taps, swipes and other gestures.

IT WILL TAKE 
10 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN
 How to download and install iOS and iPadOS apps and games on to your Mac

YOU’LL NEED 
An Apple silicon Mac, macOS 11 or later

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