Hi all,
Has anyone tried the Monzo app on the new MacBook Pro with the new M1 chip?
You canāt without a workaround I donāt think.
@ravipatel checked on theirās and the Monzo app is missing, unfortunately.
Iām not sure why they opted out of having the app on the Mac App Store, hopefully someone from Monzo will say why. Iāve put in a feedback request to Monzo to ask for it too.
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To be fair Iāve seen a fair few apps that have opted out. I was hoping to run Pocket Casts on my Mac but no joy.
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Itās a shame. Iād love to know why developers are doing that. Especially if they donāt already have a Mac version of their app available.
Edit: perhaps something to do with this https://www.techspot.com/news/87583-not-all-iphone-apps-compatible-new-m1-macs.html
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Given that they were satisfied with letting the Android app run under Chrome OS (which Starling also support, but Revolut do not), I would say it is for technical rather than spiritual reasons
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I suspect youāre right! Especially after the reading the article I just amended my post with.
@ravipatel are you able to check if any other banking apps are available or missing? Would be pretty useful to compile a list I think.
Most apps work on M1 unofficially, Iāve got Monzo on my loaded on to the MacBook however when trying to login, I get a āWe couldnāt establish a secure connection to Monzoā Maybe Monzo use something in the iPhone for verification of the device/app?
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Yes
PayPal
Barclaycard
Nationwide
Tandem
Emma
No
Revolut
Starling
Santander
Barclays
Amex
Natwest
HSBC
Lloyds
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The Monzo app checks your OS version against a whitelist of allowed OS.
This is why the Monzo app doesnāt work on the new major iOS betas.
Monzo would need to add the macOS 11 versioning to this list to allow the app to launch on macOS.
Starling do the same thing, for the record.
Thanks for compiling that list!
I find it very interesting that Barclaycard is available yet Barclays is not. These days both apps provide the same service and functionality and can be used interchangeably, presuming youāre a customer of both.
I am a regular iOS beta user and that is not accurate. I have been able to use iOS 13 and iOS14 when they were released as betas with Monzo.
The reasons they have not worked at times is bugs within iOS or the Monzo app itself but work arounds were found last year and easily used again this year so this kind of proves there is no whitelist.
I have had continuous use of the Monzo app since the very start of the iOS 14 beta until its recent release.
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My friend with a Macbook Pro M1 sideloaded the app - crashes on statrtup along with many other bank apps - seems to be trigger jailbreak detection
Fun fact: Apps on M1 show as running on an iPad 8.6
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Anything to back that up with, or just some Sunday-night Apple poo-flingling?
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How about their anti-consumer practices in after sale support.
Or their need to stamp out peopleās right to repair at every turn.
Or how they have been fined many times for misleading advertising and monopolising.
I could go on.
You could have just said no.
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Donāt really know what you mean. Apple have world-class support offering online and phone support for both software and hardware.
One of the above is the repairability score for the iPhone 12 Pro, the other for the Galaxy Note 20/ Note 20 Pro. Iāll leave it up to you to guess which is which.
Which company hasnāt been fined for misleading advertising? And Apple arenāt quite as monopolistic as some other companies.
Also, there is no proof in your comment just accusations. Come back when you have proof. Or donāt as youāre just trolling an Apple thread
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seems subjective.
And a āRepairability Scoreā isnāt?
So youāve come into an Apple thread to troll, been called out/corrected and now youāre throwing around insults?
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