Apple's treatment of AI coding apps could be shifting with Replit update

Replit has released its first iPhone app update in four months after resolving an App Store review dispute with Apple over how AI-generated apps can be previewed and developed on iOS.


CEO Amjad Masad said on May 15 that Replit had "worked things out with Apple" and published its first iPhone app update in four months. The update brings Replit Agent 4 to mobile users, along with support for parallel agents, team collaboration through merge flows, and project viewing across workspaces.

The update follows a dispute that began after Apple reportedly pushed back on new versions of the App Store app in March. Reporting around the conflict said Apple objected to how Replit let users preview AI-built apps on iPhone, an area tied to Apple's long-standing restrictions around downloaded and dynamically executed code.

Replit belongs to a fast-growing category of "vibe coding" tools that let users describe software in plain language and have AI generate the code. Desktop versions of those tools resemble modern cloud development environments where users can build, test, and modify apps through conversational prompts.


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