With the advent of the new M1 Macbooks, it is now possible to run iOS apps on the desktop. I just tried searching for Monzo on the App Store on macos; it appears that Monzo hasn’t enabled this feature, or removed it from search. But it would be great if I could download and install the Monzo app on my mac machine. It appears those who shalt not be named do enable this, though.
Let me know if what i’m suggesting is silly, I understand it doesn’t fit the Monzo design language well, but I have been dying for a way to interface with Monzo that isn’t phone based for a while.
Many thanks,
Peter
Anarchist
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It’s not silly at all; but as Monzo don’t enable iPadOS, I think it unlikely they’ll enable MacOS.
Presumably this is a security thing? Your iOS app is tried to some tokens that explicitly identify you, and they don’t really want that on loads of devices? Especially ones you’re more likely to not be beside all the time? Sounds like the classic security-accessibility trade-off to me.
I think I have heard you can simultaneously be logged into Monzo iOS app and Monzo Android app. If that’s true, the inability to login to Monzo on two iOS devices is presumably a technical choice rather than a security-driven choice.
If true would be an edge-case though. In terms of actual numbers many more people with an iPhone would have a Mac and/or iPad that they’d log in to than would have a second phone, on Android. In that case it would be more about numbers than anything. But I still recon that there’s some device keying in the backend that they don’t want to expand for security reasons.
No, developers can choose to explicitly opt-out of their iOS app being available on MacOS, and there is no indication this option will ever go away. There are apps that have a separate (paid) version on the different OSes, and for obvious reasons the developer would not want someone to be able to simply download the iOS app instead of paying for the MacOS version. Apple isn’t going to force developers to offer that, so Monzo will always be able to opt-out.
I would like to be able to run Monzo on my Mac (and I’ve voted), but with it would probably be irritating currently as that would almost certainly log me out of Monzo on my phone.
No indication or implication that this is a temporary feature, so I wouldn’t get your hopes up, regardless of what anyone tells you…
However, if you’re already planning to ship a macOS version of your app, or if your app doesn’t make sense on the Mac, you can change your app’s availability in App Store Connect.
Don’t developers choose what models and operating versions the app is compatible, which would ultimately allow them to exclude iPads and all else if they choose?
sure on that.
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