# How to run your favorite iPhone/iPad apps on an M1 Mac

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**Author:** Ayushi Chauhan
**Published:** 2022-02-25
**Updated:** 2022-02-25
**Categories:** Blogs
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## How to run your favorite iPhone/iPad apps on an M1 Mac - Guide

Apple's Latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini feature one important change: they all use Apple's own M1 silicon processor.  Thanks to this innovative chip, the convergence of iOS and macOS apps has taken a big step forward.  Among the many advantages of the M1 chips is the ability to install any iPhone or iPad app on the M1 Macs.  This is possible due to the common architecture of the two operating systems.

The development response has been lukewarm;  while some app developers chose to optimize their macOS apps, others paid little attention.  Now the question is, how do you install the optimized and non-optimized iOS or iPadOS apps to run on your Mac M1?  Fortunately, we have answers to both of your questions.

## How to    run your favorite iPhone/iPad apps on an M1 Mac

### Installing iOS and iPadOS apps from the Mac App Store

Open the ‌Mac App Store‌.

Click on your profile in the lower left corner of the app.

In account, choose “‌iPhone‌ and ‌iPad‌ Apps”.

Next to any app in the list, click download button.

The iOS app will install like any other Mac app and can be opened up from Launchpad or the Applications folder.

### Installing apps not available from the Mac App Store

Download and launch iMazing.

Connect your ‌iPhone‌ or ‌iPad‌ to your Mac.

Select your device and then choose Manage apps feature.

Select Library and then you will see a list of all the apps you have.

Right-click on an app and choose the Download option to download it to your Library.

Right click on the same application again and choose the Export .ipa option.

Choose an export destination, such as the Applications folder.

In the Applications folder, click the application icon to install the application.

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