Apple Backtracks and Approves the First PC Emulator for iOS

Screenshots: UTM SE

Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected it and barred it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the European Union. The app is now available for free for iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.

After Apple rejected the app in June, the developer said it wasn’t going to keep trying because the app was “a subpar experience.” Today, UTM thanked the AltStore team for helping it and credited another developer “whose QEMU TCTI implementation was pivotal for this JIT-less build.”

Screenshot: UTM SE

UTM SE doesn’t include any virtual machines, but does help you find them. As with other emulators on the App Store, you can’t do much… Continue reading…

source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24198015/apple-utm-se-pc-os-emulator-for-ios