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On Android at least sideloaded apps still have to ask for permissions. Is this not the same on iOS? Is the permission model not enforced by the OS? I would be shocked.


But there's no way to side-load on iOS, AFAICT.


You can do it already it is just unreasonably cumbersome.

https://altstore.io/

Or you can install a company cert profile, or pay 100$ a year for a dev account.




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