3 historic new features of iOS 17.4 that will change the rules of the game in the App Store

The change in the App Store policy in iOS 17.4 has brought 3 great news… and there are many more to come!

Apple has resisted change for many years. Little by little time passed until tools like the iPhone jailbreak motivated the company to implement more changes in its ecosystem, which until then remained shielded, hermetic, inscrutable. Now iOS 17.4 has brought a historic changeand it has done so through the App Store.

The European Commission has forced Apple to comply with the new regulations of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) incorporating into your iPhone such interesting developments in its App Store policy as third-party app stores, external payment methods, default web browsers or emulators for iPhone, among others.

Since the landing of iOS 17.4 on the iPhone they have been appearing great news on the platform. Today we review some of them.

The most historic news from the App Store with iOS 17.4

Your iPhone is going to change like never before. You’ll barely recognize it! The App Store changes are almost as drastic as those we will see in iOS 18. It is worth taking a good look.

AltStore

An alternative app store on the iPhone

AltStore is the new alternative to the App Store and is available through a website that allows you to download applications that you will not find in the official Apple store.

To download content in AltStore you will have to activate an annual subscription of 1.80 euros. It is only available in Europe, but if you live outside of Europe you will like to know that there are other methods to install AltStore on your iPhone.

Delta

Delta emulator on iPhone

Not all of the App Store changes have landed exclusively in Europe. A clear example of this is Delta, probably the best iPhone emulator in history. Delta is the original successor to GBA4iOS and allows you to play classic games from NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS and Game Boy.

Delta is available at the AltStore in Europe. But Apple has decided to approve Delta and also It is available directly in the App Store for the rest of the world. A nice gesture on the part of the company.

Setapp

Setapp is now available on macOS and will soon arrive on iOS

Finally, another of the most historic novelties that have arrived with iOS 17.4 is Setapp, a third-party application store that It is currently available for Mac and will be released for iPhone this April.

Setapp is an alternative app store developed by MacPaw that was born in 2016 and will offer applications such as Launcher with Multiple Widgets, Ulysses, Proxyman, MindNode or Pasteamong others, under a subscription of $12.49 per month.