Refreshing with provisioning profiles causes apps to become untrusted on iOS 14 or later. As a (hopefully) temporary workaround, we instead now always re-install apps to refresh them on iOS 14+ jailbroken devices, which does still work as expected.
Treating AltKit as a full module resulted in more complexity than necessary, when we really just wanted to share some files between different targets. Now we can share individual files across modules as-needed without AltKit overhead.
AltStore will use AltDaemon as a local AltServer if it’s installed and running. AltStore remains a regular sandboxed app, but AltDaemon has private entitlements necessary to perform AltServer operations without a computer.
To activate an inactive app that has been deleted from the phone, AltStore will reinstall the app, as well as restore any app data from when it was deactivated.
Deactivating apps by removing their profiles no longer works on iOS 13.5. Instead, AltStore will now back up the app by temporarily replacing it with AltBackup, then remove the app from the phone.
iOS 13.3.1 limits free developer accounts to 3 apps and app extensions. As a workaround, we now allow up to 3 “active” apps (apps with installed provisioning profiles), as well as additional “inactivate” apps which don’t have any profiles installed, causing them to not count towards the total. Inactive apps cannot be opened until they are activated.
Assuming the certificate used to originally sign an app is still valid, we can refresh an app simply by installing new provisioning profiles. However, if the signing certificate is no longer valid, we fall back to the old method of resigning + reinstalling.
AltStore now inserts an app-specific UTI when resigning apps, and it periodically checks whether that app has been deleted by checking whether UTTypeCopyDeclaration returns nil for the same app-specific UTI.
Uses embedded certificate from AltServer if possible, but then falls back to asking user to refresh AltStore manually if the certificate used to install AltStore is revoked.
