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Developer needs to authorize his iOS app for it to be available on the MacOS App Store.

There used to be a method to side load any iOS application (lots of people were using to play Genshin Impact) but Apple disabled that functionality in 11.3.

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Apple brought the sideloading back, it seems to have been removed by mistake.

You can use a third party app like iMazing to backup the .ipa file from your iPhone/iPad, and install them on your Mac. It works for apps not whitelisted for Mac in the App Store.

There's also a way using Apple Configurator. Process is start an update for the desired app via configurator and nab the IPA from the temp directory on the Mac and install it, and remove the quarantine bit.

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/download-run-ios-app-m...

Which update? The latest update explicit gives the error message that the app is not intended to run on the platform?

Actually, developers need to do nothing for their apps to appear on macOS. Most developers have specifically gone and opted their apps out, though.

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