3 historic new features of iOS 17.4 that will change the rules of the game in the App Store

The App Store policy change in iOS 17.4 brought 3 good news…and there’s more to come!

Apple has resisted change for many years. Little by little, time passed until tools like the iPhone jailbreak prompted the company to implement more changes in its ecosystem, which until then remained protected, hermetic and impenetrable. NOW iOS 17.4 brought a historic changeand he did it through the App Store.

The European Commission has forced Apple to comply with new regulations Digital Markets Act (DMA)

by integrating into your iPhone interesting developments in its App Store policy like third-party app stores, external payment methods, default web browsers or iPhone emulators, among others.

Since the landing of iOS 17.4 on the iPhone they appeared good news On the platform. Today we review some of them.

The most historic news from the App Store with iOS 17.4

Your iPhone will change like never before. You will hardly recognize it! The changes in the App Store are almost as drastic as what we’ll see in iOS 18. It’s worth taking a look.

AltStore

An alternative application store on iPhone

AltStore is the new alternative to the App Store and is available through a website that lets you download apps which you won’t find in the official Apple store.

To download content in AltStore, you will need to activate an annual subscription of 1.80 dollars. It is only available in Europe, but if you live outside of Europe, you will like to know that there are other methods to install AltStore on your iPhone.

Delta

Delta emulator on iPhone

Not all of the changes to the App Store have been exclusively available in Europe. A clear example of this is Delta, probably the best iPhone emulator in history. Delta is the original successor to GBA4iOS and lets you play classic games from NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS and Game Boy

Delta is available on the AltStore in Europe. But Apple decided to approve Delta and also It is available directly in the App Store for the rest of the world. A nice gesture on the part of the company.

Setapp

Setapp is now available on macOS and will soon come to iOS

Finally, another of the most historic new features that arrived with iOS 17.4 is Setapp, a third-party application store that It is currently available for Mac and will be released for iPhone in April.

Setapp is an alternative app store developed by MacPaw that was born in 2016 and will offer apps such as Launcher with Multiple widgets, Ulysses, Proxyman, MindNode or Pasteamong others, under a subscription of $12.49 per month.