Apple today refreshed its App Store Guidelines created for developers, modifying the emulator rules to include express permission for PC emulators to download games. Guideline 4.7 has been updated to ...

There have been months of confusion and controversy around game emulators on the App Store. Following the initial rejection of a PC emulator, Apple has today published new App Review Guidelines. The ...

App Review Guideline 4.7 now specifies that “retro game console and PC emulator apps can offer to download games.” (Emphasis ours.) Developers who want their apps notarized for third-party app stores ...

Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to allow PC emulators to offer downloads of games, a move that could improve the state of emulation in the App Store. Advised through Apple's Developer site ...

Apple is back to rejecting emulators on the App Store, but this time, it is for specific ones. A new report saw two new PC emulators for iOS denied acceptance to the app marketplace platform. One of ...

iPhone emulators have been incredibly popular this year. That's because Apple finally began allowing them on iOS and iPadOS following big changes to the App Store, especially in the European Union.

Apple’s app review team has rejected a PC emulator because Windows computers technically do not meet the retro game console criteria. Beyond banning it from its own marketplace, Apple has also refused ...

App Review has rejected a submission from the developers of UTM, a generic PC system emulator for iPhone and iPad. The open source app was submitted to the store, given the recent rule change that ...

Emulation on iOS for Apple iPhone, iPad, and the Vision Pro headset continues to mature, with the first free PC emulator, 'UTM SE,' now available on the App Store. Interestingly, Apple rejected the ...

Recently Apple reversed a long-standing policy that disallowed retro game emulator apps, so now gamers have access to decades of classic ROMs on the iPhone and iPad without work-arounds. But it ...

Earlier this year, Apple started officially allowing "retro game emulators" on the iOS App Store without the need for cumbersome jailbreaking or sideloading. But if you want to emulate retro PC games ...

Update 07/15/2024: Apple seems to have reversed its decision on PC emulation, with PC emulator UTM SE now being available in the iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS App Stores. This article's original text ...