Apple this weekend approved free PC emulator "UTM SE" for the App Store on iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. The app allows users to emulate old...
UTM SE was the first PC emulator app to be allowed on the App Store, but the guideline changes today will streamline the approval process for similar apps. Apple has also updated its separate guidelines for app notarization, which applies to third-party apps that are submitted for dis...
The iPhone can handle advanced gaming just fine and it has a lot of high quality games on the app store. But it's also very good at doing the basics, like being a good communications device for thise who prefer just that. For example, the iPhone have very good earpiece proximity sensors...
but there is something that the ad didn’t say – the “PC is not a console”. This is why the UTM SE app was blocked by the Apple App Store Review Board.
Apple has finally approved UTM SE, the first PC emulator for iPhone and iPad. The app was initially rejected in June despite Apple’srevised App Store policy allowing game emulators. What does it do? UTM SE lets users run older software and classic games originally designed for Windows, mac...
Chaoji Li, the developer of iDOS 3, shared some of Apple’s reasoning for the rejection withThe Verge. “The app provides emulator functionality but is not emulating a retro game console specifically,” according to Apple’s notice. “Only emulators of retro game consoles are appropriate per ...
operating systems. Once you have an operating system running, you can install retro apps or games on the system it was designed for. Apple was unsure if a computer emulator should be treated the same as a console one, so it erred on the side of caution and denied it from the App ...
notarize the app for third-party App Stores due to inclusion of just-in-time compilation, which would technically break a guideline that apps must be self-contained. UTM said the emulator does not include any code that violates these rules, but that it will not be fighting Apple on the ...
The first PC gaming emulator has arrived oniOS, with classic games now playable via UTM SE on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro while avoiding the JIT ban. App icon for UTM SE The gold rushof emulatorsto theApp Storefollowing Apple's rule changesin Aprilhas largely avoided PC-based emul...
Here’s the App Store description for UTM SE: UTM SE is a PC emulator that allows you to run classic software and old-school games. * Supports both VGA mode for graphics and terminal mode for text-only operating systems * Emulates x86, PPC, and RISC-V architectures ...