How to automate an app downloaded from App Store on real iOS device

I want to be able to use Appium to automate iOS apps that are on the App Store e.g. GoogleMaps (of which I do not own) on multiple real iOS devices. What I have done so far is using a tool called iMazing to download the app into an IPA file and then use the App capability to let Appium install and launch the app. However, I found that to use the downloaded app on a different iOS device I have to modify the AppleId in the IPA file’s itunesmetadata.plist file to match the iOS device in order for this to work.

My questions are:

1. Is there any other way to automate iOS apps that I don’t own on real iOS devices? A way in which I do not need to unzip, change the itunes data and rezip to use for Appium testing.
2. Is there another way to extract/download an iOS app I don’t own and produce an app file that is Appium firendly?

Environment Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.9.1 Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Mac OS Pro Mobile platform/version under test: iOS 11.2 Real device or emulator/simulator: real

[Dan-Maor]

They are associated, of course, but you can still install them, that’s how I’m testing these sort of apps. If the Apple ID is associated with the device you can just install and launch them, if not - you’ll need to launch them manually first and input the iTunes user name and password used for downloading the app in the shown popup (only once, you can then uninstall and reinstall it and the popup won’t appear again).

If you would like to refrain from sharing the account’s password on other devices, then unfortunately I’m not aware of other legal ways of producing such IPA files.

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