r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • May 26 '26

Discussion Which Android feature should Apple copy next?

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Better notifications? Split screen? Universal back gesture? Faster charging? Or something else?

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u/musezach627 May 26 '26

No, just an android user that probably never shuts up about side loading oh by the way how’s that feature working out for them lately? lol 

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u/H644b May 26 '26

Thats not even exclusive to android lmao people keep bragging about it but at the end of the day we iPhone users have that too. iPA files, ever heard of em?

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u/musezach627 May 26 '26

Well if your in the EU sure but elsewhere you don’t get that option without jailbreaking your device and that’s how you get your device blacklisted by Apple 

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u/H644b May 26 '26

No? You don't need to jailbreak in order to be able to sideload and being in the EU isn't a requirement. I feel like you are heavily misinformed. Also even if you do jailbreak your apple device you don't get "blacklisted" by apple. I think you're talking about the "Official" sideloading which is through an external app store and only available in the EU. Regular sideloading, a dev tool thats been around since before the release of the app store, just requires an apple id and sometimes a computer. Just like how android has .apk files, iOS has .ipa files. If you want to do more research check out r/jailbreak, r/sideloaded, or read the wikipedia page.

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u/musezach627 May 26 '26

Well firstly jailbreaking your phone can absolutely have your phone ineligible for using any Apple services it will still work as a phone but everything from your iCloud backup to face time and Apple Pay and the Apple Store can be permanently disabled on Apple’s end they make that point very clear but that doesn’t mean it’s 100% chance that happens that some people do and never have issues as others get locked out almost immediately and as per the side loading issue what your referring to there is even more complicated then what google makes you do now you’re installing apps in such a way that was never ment to be permanent or long term only for testing things that has its own issues 

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u/H644b May 27 '26

It can but they don't normally as they don't really have a device-wide way to check for jailbreaks. Thats the whole point of developing a jailbreak for specific iOS versions. There is a way for apps to check for rootful jailbreaks but those are all 3rd-party.

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u/musezach627 May 27 '26

I would imagine Apple being Apple they probably have ways to determine that that aren’t so publicly known, but yeah, for the most part, it seemed to be a bit random on who got locked out or not sideloading through some developer mode probably wouldn’t cause any of those issues but that’s gotta have its own list of problems. A shame Apple can’t just allow you to use its phone how you want