For iPad apps on the Mac, resizable windows are possible if the app is written to allow it, so this falls on the developer. Just as iPhone apps on an iPad have a zoom button to increase the size to the full height of the screen, the same should be available on a Mac. That change will have to come from Apple. A macOS update would be needed to solve the issue of small-windowed iPhone apps. The workaround of using the screen zoom feature helps, but isn’t an ideal solution. Some iPad apps can be resized, but many have a fixed size. The only issue is that iPhone apps are quite small on the Mac screen, particularly when using a desktop Mac with a large monitor. There are plenty of apps for Mac computers of course, but in some cases, there isn’t a Mac or browser equivalent. On a larger display, it would appear even smaller. On a 13-inch MacBook, the iPhone app appears at about half the height of the display.

As an iPhone display is tall and narrow, one would expect an iPhone app to appear in a full-height vertical window on the Mac display, but it doesn’t.

For most common needs, as Apple likes to boast, ‘there’s an app for that.’ With the launch of Apple Silicon, a portion of that huge library becomes available to the newest Mac computers.

In 2020, it is estimated that over four million apps are listed, all having passed Apple’s stringent App Review Board. The iPhone and iPad App Store exploded in popularity soon after launch, growing in leaps and bounds in the first few years, but has settled into a steady pace recently.

The problem is that many mobile apps have a fixed size and can’t take advantage of the bigger display. However, the display size of the iPhone and most iPad models is relatively small compared to the display used with a Mac computer. Apple’s powerful M1 chip is related to the A-series chips used in the iPhone and iPad. It allows the latest MacBook and Mac computers to natively run apps designed for Apple’s mobile devices.

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