How To Run Ios Apps On Mac Mojave

Check compatibility

You can upgrade to macOS Mojave from OS X Mountain Lion or later on any of the following Mac models. Your Mac also needs at least 2GB of memory and 12.5GB of available storage space, or up to 18.5GB of storage space when upgrading from OS X Yosemite or earlier.

MacBook introduced in 2015 or later
MacBook Air introduced in 2012 or later
MacBook Pro introduced in 2012 or later
Mac mini introduced in 2012 or later
iMac introduced in 2012 or later
iMac Pro (all models)
Mac Pro introduced in 2013, plus mid-2010 or mid-2012 models with a recommended Metal-capable graphics card.

To find your Mac model, memory, storage space, and macOS version, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu . If your Mac isn't compatible with macOS Mojave, the installer will let you know.

  • Install the latest release of Xcode that runs on Mojave (currently Xcode 11.3.1). It can be downloaded from Apple's developer pages. From the same page, download a release of Xcode that supports iOS 13.4 (for example Xcode 11.4.1). Unzip it, rename it to 'Xcode-11.4.1.app' and move it to the Applications folder, but don't run it.
  • Apple said it's bringing its iOS News app, Stocks app, Voice Memos app, and Home app to MacOS Mojave this year. By Clifford Colby June 5, 2018, 4:13 PM PDT Mac users can be a surprisingly.
  • Most Mac users have already upgraded to Mojave 10.14. But after a few months of using the new macOS, several users have noticed their Mac running slow after updating to Mojave. Apps are slow to launch, the system freezes often, and the processes take a long time to complete.
  • Xcode 11 can only be installed on a Mac running macOS Mojave (10.14.4 or above) or macOS Catalina (10.15 or above). Go back to Step 0 and check to make sure you have upgraded to macOS Catalina as.
  • “Mac users can for the first time run iOS and iPadOS apps on the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said. While the company didn’t share a lot of details, Apple isn’t talking about Catalyst, its own.

Make a backup

Before installing any upgrade, it’s a good idea to back up your Mac. Time Machine makes it simple, and other backup methods are also available. Learn how to back up your Mac.

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Versions earlier than Aperture 3 will not run under Mojave. And since Aperture is no longer supported, you should be looking for a new photo management app to use anyway. IWork (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) versions older than 2013 are 32-bit apps, and will likely not run under Mojave, or if they do, will have various issues. Later versions of.

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Get connected

It takes time to download and install macOS, so make sure that you have a reliable Internet connection. If you're using a Mac notebook computer, plug it into AC power.

Download macOS Mojave

For the strongest security and latest features, find out whether you can upgrade to macOS Catalina, the latest version of the Mac operating system.

If you still need macOS Mojave, use this App Store link: Get macOS Mojave.

Begin installation

After downloading, the installer opens automatically.

Click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions. You might find it easiest to begin installation in the evening so that it can complete overnight, if needed.

If the installer asks for permission to install a helper tool, enter the administrator name and password that you use to log in to your Mac, then click Add Helper.

Allow installation to complete

Please allow installation to complete without putting your Mac to sleep or closing its lid. Your Mac might restart, show a progress bar, or show a blank screen several times as it installs both macOS and related updates to your Mac firmware.

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  • If you have hardware or software that isn't compatible with Mojave, you might be able to install an earlier macOS, such as High Sierra, Sierra, or El Capitan.
  • macOS Mojave won't install on top of a later version of macOS, but you can erase your disk first or install on another disk.
  • You can use macOS Recovery to reinstall macOS.

Opening an app has become significantly more complex in macOS Mojave than it was in High Sierra, Sierra, or El Capitan. Each major release of macOS has brought substantial changes to the process: app translocation, more Gatekeeper and XProtect checks, and in Mojave the controls enforced by its privacy manager, TCC.

This article draws comparison between what is written to the log when you open a regular developer-signed app in Sierra and Mojave, and how a new ‘notarized’ app works too. In each case, I added a quarantine extended attribute to the app before opening it, to simulate what happens when the app has been freshly downloaded from the internet. This drives macOS to perform its fullest assessment of the app before it allows it to run.

In each of these log summaries, the clock time is given in blue at the start of the entry, following which the subsystem is shown in red. The remainder of the entry, shown in black, is the eventMessage. These are inevitably select highlights from thousands of entries over the time periods shown.

In macOS 10.12 Sierra, opening an app works the way that you probably think it should. The initial log entry, sendAction:, is part of the double-click to open the app. The app is then translocated into a specially-created folder to be run from there, as it is running for the first time with a quarantine xattr.

Then follows a Gatekeeper check, and assessment by XProtect. As the app has a valid developer signature and doesn’t match any of XProtect’s criteria for supposing that it is malware, its launch is allowed to proceed. This takes it on to the dialog in which the user is asked to confirm that they want to open the app.

The initial checking steps here take less than 0.5 seconds from first click to accepting the app as wholesome.

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A regular signed app launched in macOS 10.14 Mojave appears quite different, although some of this is due to changed practices and policies for writing to the log. Once again, an early action is to translocate the app to a special folder, where XProtect performs its security assessment before running a malware scan on it. This initial security assessment takes just over 0.5 seconds, during which its signature is checked. As this is a first run in quarantine, this should include a deep check of the signature against blacklists.

When those are complete, LaunchServices is allowed to proceed with launching the app, but TCC, concerned with privacy protection, then runs its own assessment. Significantly, this includes checking which version of the SDK it was built against, which determines whether TCC’s strict new policies are applicable. In this case, the SDK version is 10.14 (hex 0a0d00), so this app will only be allowed to access protected data and services for which it has usage information strings in its Info.plist. As it isn’t hardened or notarized, it doesn’t have entitlements.

What I haven’t included here is the succession of errors when trying to check whether this app is notarized. In this case, it is because it is not, just signed in the ordinary way with a Developer ID.

Total time from first click to LaunchServices being allowed to proceed is here around 3 seconds, although this Mac is much faster than that running Sierra.

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This is my app xattred, which is built against the 10.14 SDK, hardened and notarized, and has entitlements and usage information strings to support access to most protected data classes. It too is translocated to and run from a special folder.

Note that the XProtect security assessment here takes over 4 seconds, which includes time spent checking it not just against local databases, but verifying its notarization. LaunchServices then relocates its bundle and execution paths after a further delay of over 2 seconds, during which additional checks are made.

When TCC starts work on it, it still referred to it in its translocation folder, and is run from there. TCC knows that its runtime has been hardened, and applies the prompting policy appropriate to that, rather than just a Developer ID. This requires matching the entitlements which have been baked into its signature with the usage strings in its Info.plist. To be able to access any protected data, it requires both the appropriate entitlement and a usage string for that class of data.

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The final entry given there (and for the previous app) is fascinating, but inexplicable without further knowledge of how TCC works. It refers to deriving a “team id” for the app for that given user ID. Presumably the outputs from these steps in TCC are stored in its database, ready for use when the app tries to access protected data or services.

Total time from first click to LaunchServices proceeding is now around 7 seconds, on the same Mac used for the previous Mojave test.

It is also worth bearing in mind that apps are normally only run once with their quarantine xattrs set. Subsequent launches undergo much briefer signature checks of integrity alone.

Updated 1640 3 October 2018 following helpful information from @lapcatsoftware pointing out that, although LaunchServices may relocate the bundle and exec paths during this initial run of an app in quarantine, the app is still actually run from translocation. On more thorough search of the logs from a non-notarized app, they behave just the same in Mojave, so this is not peculiar to apps which have been notarized.