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I am aware of this option, but sideloading on iOS currently kinda sucks. You have to use AltStore which sometimes goes unmaintained for a few months, even when it's maintained it's kinda buggy and the Windows version almost never works for me. It's also not available for Linux. And you have to connect your phone to a computer running AltStore every 7 days, otherwise the app will stop functioning. It's just not a great solution and especially bad for less tech-savvy users.
You don’t have to use AltStore. I re-sign the IPA myself and install with Apple Configurator
But you still have to do it once a week, right?
If you don’t have a paid developer license yeah. But I do so I don’t have do deal with that.
I'm definitely not gonna pay Apple money to use my device that I already paid way too much money for the way I want to. But I just switched to Android (GrapheneOS to be percise) and now I don't have to deal with any of this BS anymore.