• New Adobe Express app with Firefly AI now available on the iOS App Store

    Adobe on Thursday officially launched its new Adobe Express app with Firefly AI for iOS and Android. This version of the app has been available to beta testers for some time, and can now be downloaded by anyone. Read on as we detail everything that’s new with the Adobe Express update. more

  • Retro game emulators are now allowed in the iOS App Store, but there are caveats

    Apple is under more pressure than ever for its App Store policies, but this might help its case.

  • Game Boy emulator now available on the iPhone following App Store rules change

    Update: The app has been removed from the App Store, as spotted by Parker Ortolani. It’s unclear if the developer or Apple removed the app. Apple changed the App Store rules last week to seemingly permit game emulators on the iPhone for the first time. Following that policy change, the first emulator apps are now appearing on the store. iGBA is a free Game Boy game emulator for iPhone and iPad, which can indeed load and play ROMs downloaded to the device — a category of application that...

  • Game Boy Emulator for iPhone Now Available in App Store Following Rule Change [Removed]

    A week after Apple updated its App Review Guidelines to permit retro game console emulators, a Game Boy emulator for the iPhone called iGBA has appeared in the App Store worldwide. The emulator is already one of the top free apps on the App Store charts. It was not entirely clear if Apple would allow emulators to work with all and any games, but iGBA is able to load any Game Boy ROMs that users download from the web and open via the Files app on the iPhone. Accordingly, it seems like...

  • Nintendo emulator Delta lands on the Apple App Store, now the top free app

    According to Testut, iGBA was a knockoff of GBA4iOS, which he developed while still in high school. Testut expressed frustration that Apple approved the clone (despite it being filled with ads and trackers) while his own app had been stuck in the approval process for well over a month.Read Entire Article

  • Now at the top of the App Store, the Eclipse App is a great companion for Monday's solar eclipse

    The app includes cloud cover forecasts, guides that pinpoint when totality will occur at your exact location, and information about local events, parks and viewing sites in your area. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Apple will now let users in the EU download apps through web sites, not just the App Store

    Apple is opening up web distribution for iOS apps targeting users in the European Union starting Tuesday. Developers who opt in — and who meet Apple’s criteria, including app notarization requirements — will be able to offer iPhone apps for direct download to EU users from their own websites. It’s a massive change for a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; music apps in the EU can take users to an external website

    After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it’s not satisfied with the changes the company made to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple on Friday updated the App Store guidelines again. This time, the company is making it easier for music streaming apps to redirect users to an external website in the EU. And for the first time, Apple will allow game emulators on its platforms. more

  • Delta Game Emulator Now Available From App Store on iPhone

    Game emulator apps have come and gone since Apple announced App Store support for them on April 5, but now popular game emulator Delta from developer Riley Testut is available for download. Testut is known as the developer behind GBA4iOS, an open-source emulator that was available for a brief time more than a decade ago. GBA4iOS led to Delta, an emulator that has been available outside of the App Store, but is now sanctioned by Apple. Delta is an all-in-one emulator that supports game...

  • Gaming emulators are now on the App Store after Apple relaxed the rules

    After Apple changed its policy allowing gaming emulators from third party developers on the App Store, the first ones have started to show up.

  • Game emulators arrive in App Store following rule changes

    Just over a week after Apple changed rules to allow game emulators on iPhone and iPad, the first have made their way into the App Store. Emulators arrive on iPhone Apple made a change to guideline 4.7 of the App Store Review Guidelines in early April, reversing a rule that effectively banned the submission of console and classic game emulators for iOS and iPadOS. The change, which specifically allows apps to run "software that is not embedded in the binary," with "retro game console...

  • Emulators seem to now be allowed on the Apple App Store but with some caveats

    Apple’s App Store has famously been a walled garden for a while now. The tight policies have only recently been changing mostly thanks to EU regulations. Though, even taha has been a bumpy process met with a lot of pushback from Cupertino. Thankfully, things seem to be looking up, and Apple’s most recent App Review Guidelines now offer a more relaxed attitude towards offering additional content from within apps. Notably, this includes retro game console emulators that, under the new rules, may...