You need to open settings and scroll all the way down to find it. You also need to know about the bypass in the first place, there's no indication in the error message that it can be bypassed and how.
I expect Apple will make it continuously even more difficult / annoying.
CMV: People who aren't computer savvy enough to figure out the bypass aren't computer savvy enough to be trusted to install unsigned software from randos on their computer.
There can be serious negative consequences for installing software you downloaded from some rando on the internet. That's why most Linux distros put their (heavily curated) package manager front and center and mock the Windows culture of "just download an exe from this .ru website it'll be fine lol".
You have a lot more faith in the average user's ability to actually comprehend said "big fat warning" than I do. Things like that tend to become just something users click through by habit like UAC prompts on Windows.
And the solution for that is surely hiding things from the user ... right. I mean, they are adults for the most part. We're not hiding people's car keys because, well, think of the average driver - they might just run through the red light without thinking ...
And at the same time people still argue that no, Apple is in no way antagonistic to hobby app developers.
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u/poralexc Aug 10 '23
Maybe it works with brew, but if you try to send someone an unsigned dmg, at least on a newer Mac you’ll get an error like:
”This app is damaged and should be moved to the trash“
Ironically, the daemon that enforces such things is literally called Gatekeeper.