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Apple's head of security speaks out against iPhone app sideloading in new interview (9to5mac.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Psy-Demon@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] sgtakase@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think whenever sideloading becomes a thing the most reasonable solution to me is to make it only doable by injection through a program on a Mac or pc.

It would still allow anyone that really wants to get a program to have it, and the program itself could still self update without having to plug back in, but it would add that one extra step that would keep your average person from accidentally downloading something they shouldn’t.

Like my grandma. If sideloading were on a phone and just had to click okay a couple extra times, she might accidentally do it. If she had to plug it in to download initially, she’d think is this something that I need?

[–] UrAlexios@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

You will probably need to enable developer mode (a few clicks and a restart) and then confirm something like 30 times in order to install an app. You won’t be able to do it by default, that would be just stupid.