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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