AltStore 1.4 beta 8 (GM) (Patreon)

EDIT:  Please look in your AltStore app for this update! If you have any questions ,please send us a message via Patreon and I will be happy to assist you :) Thank you everyone! - Alyssa 

Happy October y’all!

Yesterday I released AltStore 1.4 beta 8, which should be the last beta before the public release of AltStore 1.4. I originally planned for last week’s beta (1.4 beta 7) to be the last, but that shipped with a major bug that broke AltDaemon for all Odyssey jailbreakers which I needed to fix ASAP. Thankfully I’ve done just that, so there are finally no known major issues remaining 🙌

What can you expect in this (and last week’s) beta? By far the most exciting feature is a new iOS 14 home screen widget. You can now place AltStore widgets anywhere on the home screen to track when sideloaded apps expire, so you don’t forget to refresh you apps ever again. AltStore only supports the “small” widget size for now, but additional sizes that can display information about multiple apps at once are planned for future updates 👍

Additionally, beta 8 also includes initial support for customizing sideloaded app icons. From the My Apps tab, you can now long press an app to change its home screen icon to anything you want. This feature most likely won’t ship in the public 1.4 version due to minor bugs I still need to address, but I’m very excited for this feature given the hype over customizing home screens and I’d love to hear your feedback!

Thanks to your help beta testing, AltStore 1.4 is finally just about ready for public release! I can’t wait to share all these new features with everyone soon — and then go back to porting Delta to Mac and iPad 😄