When Apple announced plans to comply with the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) legislation in Europe, we discovered that iPhone sideloading would not be what some developers and iPhone users wanted.

As promised, the iOS 17.5 beta includes support for sideloading apps directly from authorized developer websites in the European Union. When Apple first released its plans for complying with the EU's ...

Apple's new geo-restriction also applies to direct app downloads: If you leave the EU for more than 30 days, there will be no more updates for iPhone apps that were previously downloaded outside of ...