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macOS Monterey enhances iPhone and iPad apps on M1 Macs with full-screen video, Apple Pay, more - 9to5Mac
Jun 09, 2021 1 min, 17 secs

With the introduction of macOS Big Sur last year, Apple announced that users would be able to run iPhone and iPad apps on their M1 Macs.

With this year’s release of macOS Monterey, Apple is making several enhancements to improve the experience of running iPhone and iPad apps on M1 and future Apple Silicon Macs.

As detailed in a new session today entitled “Qualities of great iPad and iPhone apps on Macs with M1,” Apple engineer Nils Beck walks through a variety of changes and best practices for optimizing for M1 Macs.

First off, iPhone and iPad apps running on M1 Macs now support Apple Pay.

Previously, if an app supported Apple Pay on iPhone or iPad, this feature was not available when running on an M1 Mac.

Apple Pay is now available for iPad and iPhone apps on M1 Macs using the same enhanced cross-platform API we introduced for Mac Catalyst applications in macOS Big Sur.

Apple is also making improvements to video playback in full-screen for iPhone and iPad apps running on Apple Silicon Macs.

And if your app uses the intents framework to offer custom SiriKit Shortcuts, on macOS Monterey, those are now supported for iPad and iPhone apps on M1 Macs

Notably, these improvements might also prompt developers who had previously opted out of making their iPhone and iPad apps available to M1 Macs users to reconsider

Apple allows developers to opt out of making their iPhone and iPad apps available on the Mac App Store, and many, especially larger companies, have taken this option

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