10/19/2021: Forbidden iPhone apps

A trip outside the iOS App Store

Plus: New MacBooks and AirPods, a super simple website maker, and a Google Docs efficiency booster.

Jared Newman

October 19, 2021

RetroArch running on an iPhone 13 Pro Max

Earlier this week, I installed three iPhone apps that aren’t supposed to exist.

The first was a modified version of Twitter with all ads removed, and the second was RetroArch, a popular way to emulate classic video games. After that, I installed an app for finding lost AirPods, which Apple banned in 2017 before releasing a similar feature exclusively for the AirPods Pro and Max.

Hold up!

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