Kodi is one of the most used applications in all types of devices and, in addition, lately one of the most criticized and persecuted by the industry and the defenders of copyright due to the large number of plugins and third-party extensions used to view content pirate through the Internet. For this reason, some developers, such as Apple, prevent the application from being published in the application store, being, due to the restrictions of iOS, very difficult to install this multimedia center on the iPhone and iPad when unsigned software can not be installed on iOS for Apple, at least not without Jailbreak.
Although Jailbreak years ago, in addition to being useful, it was very simple to make, as iOS has been updated, Apple has made its operating system more and more secure, making the Jailbreak in a configuration only available for some old versions and very unstable . Users who have Jailbreak on their devices can install this media center without difficulty from any alternative application store, such as Cydia or AppCake. However, those who do not have their modified devices will have to install it by hand on the device, as we will show you below.
Install Kodi on iOS without Jailbreak thanks to Cydia Impactor
In order to install this application on iOS without Jailbreak, the first thing we need is to have a Windows 7 (or later) computer and iTunes installed on the computer. Once we meet these two requirements, the next step will be to download Kodi download from its main website , as well as " Cydia Impactor ", tool that we will need later.
Generate the IPA file to install it on iOS
As we can see, from the main website of Kodi we have downloaded a .deb file, however, in iOS we must install .IPA files. To generate this file from .deb we are going to use the 7-Zip tool .
If we open the .deb file with this file compressor, we will see that inside it we can find a folder called "data.tar". .tar is another compressed file extension, so if we open it again with 7-Zip and unzip it we will have a new folder called " Kodi.app ".
Once we have this folder, we create a new one next to it, it will call "Payload" and we will move inside it the "Kodi.app" folder.
Ready this, we simply have to recompress the Payload folder (inside which is the folder Kodi.app) in zip format and, once finished, we will change the name of this file to "Kodi.ipa".
We are ready to install Kodi on an iPhone or iPad with iOS are depend on Jailbreak.
Install Kodi on iOS from Cydia Impactor
Once we have our Kodi package ready, we connect our iOS device to the computer and make sure that iTunes detects it correctly. Next, we will execute " Impactor.exe " and we will see the main window of the program with the data of our device.
The only thing left for us to do is drag the file "Kodi.ipa" to the Cydia Impactor window and log in, when requested, with our Apple account. We must ensure that we do not have a double authentication system enabled, because if this is the case, we will not be able to log in to the servers.
Once the program is logged in, we can only wait for the file to be signed with our temporary certificate and installed on our iPhone or iPad with iOS. Finally, we must bear in mind that the temporary certificate that Cydia Impactor configures is only valid for 7 days. After those days we will have to repeat this process, at least the last step, because if we save the file "Kodi.ipa" we will not have to repeat it again.