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Is there any way to port an existing iPhone app to a Mac OS X app?
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iOS Apps on Mac runs your unmodified iPhone and iPad apps on Apple silicon with no porting process. Your apps use the same frameworks and infrastructure that Mac Catalyst apps use to run, but without the need to recompile for the Mac platform.
Control-click the app icon, then choose Open from the shortcut menu. Click Open. The app is saved as an exception to your security settings, and you can open it in the future by double-clicking it just as you can any registered app.
It's a very broad question and, as such, is very difficult to answer.
Generally the answer would have to be no.
For an app, if you strictly followed the MVC model, you'd be able to keep the model but would need to rewrite both the view and the controller. For a game it depends on how low-level it is. If you used a framework that it also available on the Mac then a lot may port automatically but you'll still need to reconsider the controls, screen size, etc. Either way it's non-trivial.
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