• How do you download & save an IPA and install it, without an Apple account?

    From Maria Sophia@[email protected] to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed May 20 11:01:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Q: How do you download & save an IPA & install it,
    without an Apple account?
    A: ?

    Yesterday I wrote up a tutorial for downloading and saving an Android APK
    from the Google Play Store without having a Google account on the phone.

    *Tutorial: How to use adb, scrcpy, save-on-device & Aurora Store*
    *to archive Google Play APK bundles without needing a Google account*
    *all from your PC*
    <https://xdaforums.com/t/tutorial-how-to-use-adb-scrcpy-save-on-device-aurora-store-to-archive-google-play-apk-bundles-without-needing-a-google-account-all-from-your-pc.4789145/>

    That tutorial covers *more* than just downloading and installing the
    APK since it's all done seamlessly from the PC without touching the phone.

    But now it's time to see what iOS can do, since, so far, there's nothing
    that iOS can do that Android doesn't already do (save for SMB on port 443).

    Can iOS do what Android does?
    How?
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