[3825]

Sorry for the silly question. I don't own a mac or an iPhone anymore. My understanding is you can sideload apps on your own iPhone from your own mac running xcode. Are there limitations to what kind of apps you can side load using xcode?

[ikawe]

Nothing installed that way can receive push notifications, though not all apps need or use then.

[mhovan]

Not strictly true. I regularly test push notifications on sideloaded builds at client sites. Getting provisioning profiles and certificates setup correctly (especially on all extensions) is a bit cumbersome. To get those certificates may require an Apple enterprise developer account. And the builds signed this way are not debuggable.

[nnutter]

I'm not certain but I think push notifications can also be used "invisibly" to trigger data sync so this could mean limited functionality beyond just receiving "pop-ups".

[dpkonofa]

That's not true. You can receive push notifications on side loaded apps.

[ReverseCold]

You can (used to be able to?) also sideload without a Mac, that's how some pirate app stores work without jailbreak.