How can your iPhone use apps not found in Apple’s App Store?
When you download an application from the Apple App Store, your iPhone will not think twice about trusting the app.
Once you use your password, Touch ID, or Face ID, the phone will let you install, open and use the app because anything available for download from the App Store has already been thoroughly vetted by Apple.
However, if you want to use an app from any source other than the App Store, your phone is programmed not to trust it, and will not allow you to use it until you manually trust the app after a multi-step process.
These apps might come from your company that wants staff to use proprietary software, or from gaming or media companies not affiliated with Apple. Or perhaps you have agreed to test out an app for a friend who just developed it.
Whatever your reason for trusting an app on your iPhone, as long as you are confident that it is not a Trojan horse – any malware which misleads users of its true intent and will compromise and corrupt your phone – the process is pretty easy.
How to trust an app on an iPhone
1. Download the app, as long as you think you can trust it.
2. A message will pop up calling the app’s developer “Untrusted” and saying that the app cannot be used on your iPhone. Hit “Cancel” to clear the message.
3. Launch the Settings app and go to the “General” tab.
4. Scroll down to – and then tap – the “Profiles” tab, which might be called “Device Management”.
5. Under a section titled “Enterprise App” you will see the “untrusted” app in question. Tap it.
6. On the next page, hit the words “Trust Name of App”.
7. Confirm your choice, and if prompted hit the words “Verify App” to confirm your confirmation.
You can now go back to the home screen where the app icon is displayed and launch it, just as you would with any app downloaded from the App Store.
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This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
You can download apps affiliated with Apple without thinking twice, but using apps from other sources means you must manually change settings, but fear not – it is pretty easy