Select ‘Anywhere’ and you are done.įor each app that wouldn’t open, you have to perform Control-click-open just once. But you can verify if it worked by navigating to Settings > Security & Privacy > General. There is no message displayed after you run this command successfully. Open Terminal and type the following command. This requires a quick command in Terminal. By disabling Gatekeeper, you will bring back the option to run apps from ‘anywhere’ meaning apps by unverified developers. As mentioned earlier, recent versions on macOS only let you run apps from app store or from identified developers. Gatekeeper is the safety mechanism of macOS that decides which apps are allowed to run. Note: This tutorial is an extension of another tutorial that I wrote in 2016. Anyway, in this tutorial, I share some ways to solve ‘errors’ like “this app is damaged” and run an app downloaded from a source other than the app store. Now, it’s not entirely impossible to run these apps but I don’t like to follow those extra steps in order to run an app which I want to run, on my own device. And I want to be able to run any app I like – from anywhere I like.” “Sorry. With the launch of Apple Silicon and Big Sur, macOS has made it even harder to run a third-party app. Other examples include “this app can not be opened because the developer can not be verified” and “this app can not be opened because Apple can’t check it for malicious software.”īefore the launch of macOS Sierra in 2016, you could simply turn on an option to allow apps from ‘anywhere’ and run apps by unidentified developers. “This app is damaged and should be moved to the bin,” is a common ‘error’ that’s designed to force users to drop the idea of running an ‘unsecure’ app. To stop users from running these ‘unverified’ apps, Apple shows different errors in macOS.

But on macOS, users can download apps from the app store as well as directly from app developers’ website or third-party websites.īecause of Apple’s policies, even an app that’s not part of the app store has to be ‘notarised.’ If the developer is not verified, Apple will not let its app run on macOS.

Unless your device is jailbroken, you can’t install and run an app from anywhere else. On iOS devices, Apple only allows apps to be installed from the app store.

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