🛍️AltStore

AltStore 1.7

September 18, 2023

New

"Active Apps" Widget (iOS 17+)

• View remaining days for ALL active apps from Home Screen

• Refresh apps directly from home screen by tapping countdown timers

Improved

Shortcuts Support

• Converted existing "Refresh Apps" shortcut into App Shortcut

• Available by default in "App Shortcuts" section of Shortcuts app

• Displays accurate progress when refreshing apps via Shortcuts app

Widgets

• Updated existing home screen widget to support refreshing apps by tapping countdown (iOS 17+)

• Explicitly reloads widget timelines on app launch

Fixed

• Fixed updating apps with manually-removed app extensions (e.g. uYou+)

• Fixed not refreshing AltStore last when refreshing via Shortcut

• Fixed race condition causing duplicate background refresh notifications (or none)

• Fixed Error Log not displaying all detailed info for certain errors

AltStore 1.6.3

April 12, 2023

• Fixed error fetching Friend Zone patrons due to unexpected nil name

• Fixed incorrect cell height for some News items

AltStore 1.6.2

March 22, 2023

• Fixed “no provisioning profile with the requested identifier…” error when sideloading and refreshing apps

AltStore 1.6.1

February 20, 2023

• “Clear Cache” button removes temporary files and deleted app backups to free up disk space

• Disable new “Enforce 3-App Limit” setting to sideload more than 3 apps via MacDirtyCow exploit*

• Fixed crash when viewing Sources on iOS 12

*Requires iOS 14.0 - 16.1.2 (excluding 15.7.2). iOS 16.2 or later not supported.

AltStore 1.6

January 30, 2023

New

Lock Screen Widget (iOS 16 only)

• Counts down days until AltStore expires

• Available in 2 different styles: “text” and “icon”

Error Log

• View past errors in more detail

• Tap an error to copy the error message or error code

• Search for error code directly in AltStore FAQ

• “View More Details” button to view detailed error information

• Access via new “Techy Things” section in AltStore settings

iOS Version Compatibility

• Supports app updates with minimum or maximum OS requirements

• Hides app updates if they’re not compatible with current device

• Falls back to downloading last compatible version on older devices

• View all unsupported updates from My Apps tab

Revamped Error Handling

• Completely revamped error handling to include as much information as possible, which should make debugging certain issues much easier

• Revised error messages to be more descriptive and provide more suggestions

• Revised error domain format to [Module].[ErrorType]

• AltStore.OperationError codes start at 1000

• AltServer.ServerError codes start at 2000

• AltStore.AppleDeveloperError codes start at 3000

• Uses underlying error messages (if available) for several AltServer.ServerError errors

• Encodes/Decodes all Codable user info values, not just recognized types

Misc.

• Adds pull-to-refresh to check for updates

• Supports new “versions” key in source JSON

• Supports updating apps from app detail page

Improved

Source Validation

• Verifies sources don't contain duplicate app bundle identifiers

• Verifies sources don't contain duplicate app versions

• Shows error if a source is configured incorrectly instead of silently failing

Misc.

• Updated LaunchViewController error alert to display more detailed error messages

• Always displays loading indicator when fetching Friend Zone patrons

• Improves error message when .ipa does not exist at provided downloadURL

• Caches MergeErrors when refreshing sources to view later from Sources page

Fixed

• Fixed CollapsingTextView incorrectly showing “more” button

• Fixed “error migrating persistent store” issue

• Fixed widgets potentially not updating after refreshing apps

• Fixed simultaneous database access from multiple AltStores

• Fixed incorrect app name and iOS version in "Unsupported iOS version" error message

• Fixed refreshing tweaked apps with removed app extensions

• Fixed error encoding CodableError Int/UInt user info values

• Fixed adding failures to NSErrors with nil localizedFailureReasons

• Fixed incorrect error toast view color when sign-in fails

AltStore 1.5.1

July 14, 2022

• Fixed signing in with Apple IDs that contain capital letters

• Fixed signing in with Apple IDs that have 2FA enabled but don’t have any registered trusted devices

• Fixed repeatedly asking some users to sign in every time they refresh their apps

• Fixed “Application is missing application-identifier” error when sideloading or (de-)activating certain apps

• Fixed “Incorrect Apple ID or password” error after changing an Apple ID’s primary email address

• Fixed crash when receiving unknown error codes from AltServer

AltStore 1.5

May 6, 2022

New

Trusted Sources

• Download and update certain third party apps entirely through AltStore

• Add Trusted Sources directly from the new Sources page

• Trusted Sources are sources we’ve explicitly approved because they meet our safety standards

• Support for adding any source by URL will be coming later

AltJIT

• Allows sideloaded apps to use Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation

• Long-press an app in My Apps, then choose “Enable JIT” – a few seconds later you should see an AltStore notification saying “Successfully Enabled JIT”

  • Your device must be on the same WiFi network as AltServer or connected to your computer via USB

• JIT will remain enabled until the app is quit from the app switcher or purged from memory in the background

• Requires iOS 14 or later

• Requires AltServer 1.5 or later

Improved

• Supports landscape app screenshots

• Adds Shane to credits and Patreon screen

• Prefetches & caches Friend Zone patrons to offset the Patreon API’s slow response time

Fixed

• Fixed a potential crash when sideloading certain apps

• Fixed some apps having access to AltStore’s app group after being (de-)activated

• Fixed crash when adding or removing sources that have News items

• Fixed Core Data error when not connected to internet due to saving non-NSSecureEncoding items from NSError’s userInfo