Successfully bypassed 3 app limit using SparseRestore. I haven’t tested it on iOS 17.x and 18 so no guarantee here.

I have done a bit of research in installd to find out it determines free developer apps by an extended attribute (xattr). So can SparseRestore bypass it? Yes, by overwriting its attribute value. However this is temporary as you have to rerun for each 3 apps you install or update.

Theoretically, a kernel rw may also be able to overwrite the attribute key to something else so that installd skips it. For now, you need a MDC build to remove the hard cap in SideStore.

Works on ios 17.4.1

Great job! But why sidestore limits only 3 apps?

It’s a hard cap so users can choose to disable other apps. Also this bypasses in a way that SideStore doesn’t know just like MDC so they probably have to make a separate build

not work on ios 17.7rc

@Little_34306 Does sparserestore work in ios18.5

@Little_34306 18.0.1 done 👍🏻👏🏼

Appreciate the effort but already got TrollStore 💯