UTM SE: First PC Emulator for iOS Approved by Apple

UTM SE is the first official emulator approved by Apple to be used in iOS, iPad and visionOS. With this move, the emulator is the first of its kind to be listed on the Apple Store. It should however be noted that the emulator can only support retro and classic games. 

Apple had previously rejected UTM’s application for the emulator to be listed on the App Store. The tech giant had stated that the platform was not considered an emulator. There are no concrete explanations as to why Apple revised this decision. 

UTM SE: More on This Emulator

The emulator is free to download and is considered easy to use. UTM also supports several outputs such as a mouse, keyboard, Apple Pencil, controllers and touchpad. Furthermore, it is supported by Quick Emulator (qemu), which includes more than thirty processors such as the RISC-V, x86_64 and ARM64.

UTM has stated on their official website that the emulator cannot play a majority of modern games. This is because Apple A-chips cannot support hardware virtualisation, thus leading to the recompilation of the ARM code with JIT. Consequently, performance will not be as good when compared to those with KVM.

Besides iOS, the emulator can also be run on Windows, and Linux. Although, the emulator works best and is much more secure on iOS. 

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