Apple has updated App Store Connect to version 3.1. The new version includes iOS 26 support, including a new icon and Apple’s new Liquid Glass design throughout the app. App Store Connect is a developer-focused iOS app that lets app makers manage their App Store listings.

Several alternative app stores for iPhones and iPads are already in the works as Apple prepares to open up its iOS ecosystem to third-party software providers under new rules enforced by EU authorities. Software company MacPaw is among the first to ...

Epic Games will never just take the win — it's now appealing to the court of public opinion that it takes one more actual step to install a third-party App Store as it does to install an app from the App Store itself.

Epic Games Store expands to iOS & Android. Debate sparks over app store competition, user choice, and Apple-Google dominance in mobile gaming.

Epic Games has claimed that Apple's revised installation process for third-party app marketplaces in the EU demonstrates that the company

This, Epic Games says, proves that Apple’s original compliance was purposefully deceptive and designed to harm competition. But Apple continues to violate the DMA, too, of course. And the result is that far fewer developers are willing to distribute mobile games through the Epic Games Store on iOS than the Epic Games Store on Android.