Get .app from iPad to Mac I have made an app and loaded it onto my iPad. I am wondering how I can pull the .app file on my iPad onto my Mac so I can distribute it. I would usually build the app for release to get the .app file outputted, but there is some bug in Xcode that makes the stage 'compiling swift files' last forever. Thanks.
You can't just run an iOS app on macOS; they're different operating systems. You can use the iOS Simulator bundled with Xcode, but even then you can't use the same .app file, because the CPU architecture of the iPad and your Mac are different. If it's your own app, it's easiest just to build &amp; run from Xcode; you can 'install' .app files from another source by copying them to the right folder in Finder. They will of course only run if they specifically built for the Simulator.