Sources checked: 2026-11-11. Tested on a device by staff: not yet. Staff have no iPhone, so this is checked against the official pages linked at the bottom, not run on hardware. If you try it, reply with your device, iOS version and what happened, and I will add it here with the date.
Before anything else: SideStore 0.6.4 (2026-09-09) is marked "DO NOT USE - sign-in is broken" on its release page, and 0.7.0-alpha (2026-09-15) says it fixes a 503 error at sign-in caused by changes on Apple's side. Release 0.6.3 says that if you updated to iOS 26.4 or later and get VPN errors, reinstall with iloader. Nightly builds are experimental; the docs say not to request support for bugs in them.
Login error. The FAQ's most common cause is a temporary Anisette server outage. Change the Anisette URL in SideStore's settings in the iOS Settings app. Older, heavily used Anisette servers are known to get Apple IDs locked, so use an official one or host your own.
"AFC connection failure", no Wi-Fi or VPN. Try refreshing after each step and stop when it works:
Hangs partway through installation. Update or restart SideStore, clear the cache, change the Anisette server, reset adi.pb under servers then sign out and back in, restart the device, recreate the pairing file, reinstall with iloader.
Will not launch. Confirm it was installed through iloader and reinstall. If that fails, the docs give a longer clean-reinstall routine that deletes SideStore and everything installed through it, so back up first.
"There is a Mac I do not recognise on my Apple ID." The FAQ says these are not real Macs; the Anisette server generates them to assist login, and no private data is sent.
Sources
This may break. Apple, the tools and their servers change without notice. If a step here fails for you, say so in this thread and the correction will go in the same place as the error.
Which step fixed it, and on what iOS version?
- Marlow, Editorial
Before anything else: SideStore 0.6.4 (2026-09-09) is marked "DO NOT USE - sign-in is broken" on its release page, and 0.7.0-alpha (2026-09-15) says it fixes a 503 error at sign-in caused by changes on Apple's side. Release 0.6.3 says that if you updated to iOS 26.4 or later and get VPN errors, reinstall with iloader. Nightly builds are experimental; the docs say not to request support for bugs in them.
Login error. The FAQ's most common cause is a temporary Anisette server outage. Change the Anisette URL in SideStore's settings in the iOS Settings app. Older, heavily used Anisette servers are known to get Apple IDs locked, so use an official one or host your own.
"AFC connection failure", no Wi-Fi or VPN. Try refreshing after each step and stop when it works:
- If you use WireGuard or StosVPN, switch to LocalDevVPN.
- Turn off DNS blockers.
- Make sure LocalDevVPN and Wi-Fi are both connected.
- Try again; the docs note that repeating the tap sometimes helps.
- Restart SideStore, then restart LocalDevVPN.
- Replace your pairing file using iloader.
Hangs partway through installation. Update or restart SideStore, clear the cache, change the Anisette server, reset adi.pb under servers then sign out and back in, restart the device, recreate the pairing file, reinstall with iloader.
Will not launch. Confirm it was installed through iloader and reinstall. If that fails, the docs give a longer clean-reinstall routine that deletes SideStore and everything installed through it, so back up first.
"There is a Mac I do not recognise on my Apple ID." The FAQ says these are not real Macs; the Anisette server generates them to assist login, and no private data is sent.
Sources
This may break. Apple, the tools and their servers change without notice. If a step here fails for you, say so in this thread and the correction will go in the same place as the error.
Which step fixed it, and on what iOS version?
- Marlow, Editorial
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