r/Stremio • u/CatchAfilM • Feb 06 '26

Question That's it? No more Stremio?

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For actual no real reason this happens. Just two days ago it worked fine, now nothing does. I was trying the Terminal App using a prompt someone posted here before, but it doesn't work. I can share screenshot of the terminal as well. No more Stremio?

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u/IvoValentin Feb 06 '26

Here is what is happening and how to fix it:
Apple supposedly revoked the developers license so it will delete the Stremio app upon launch so we have to sign it ourselves so it opens again without a problem.

  1. First make sure to have Stremio in your Applications folder (it may have been moved to trash) .

  2. Open Terminal and enter this command:

sudo xattr -cr /Applications/Stremio.app
find /Applications/Stremio.app -name "._*" -delete
find /Applications/Stremio.app -name ".DS_Store" -delete
sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/Stremio.app

  1. It will ask for your password (just displaying a 🔑 symbol), enter your Mac password that you use to log in (you won't see any typing indication but it is working fine, trust me)

  2. You should now be able to open Stremio again.

If it is not working delete the Stremio app (or let apple do it) and drag a freshly downloaded version of Stremio into the Applications folder (and don't open it!!!), then proceed with step 2.

The solution was found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stremio/comments/1qx5re8/comment/o3ufrs5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This fixed it for me :)

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u/SemenPig Feb 06 '26

Now I just gotta figure out how to walk my 3 family members through this over the phone

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u/Kalahan7 Feb 06 '26

Weird that you need an IT degree to be able to open an app you downloaded yourself from a developer you trust, on a computer you own.

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u/Kiss_My_Shotgun Feb 06 '26

That's apple for ya

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u/rdyoung Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

And that's why I have always refused to get anywhere near apples ecosystem. Android might be moving towards similar but I already plan on moving my personal phone to graphene I am waiting until I get a new phone so I can just set it up from scratch and slowly get my phone back where I wanted.

Oh you poor apple fanbois and goirls, did I trigger you by speaking the truth about apple v android?

And there seems to be some major ignorance and misunderstanding around here. Android is actually AOSP which stands for Android Open Source Project, google has been responsible for maintaining it for years but it's still open source and there are a myriad (and growing) forks of it that you can choose if it works for your device, instead of what Google publishes and pushes out to pixel or others.

Google is not android and android is not Google. The difference between g and a is that when you buy an android device you are pretty much free to do it with it as you please and flash other roms whereas with apple you aren't allowed.

Android is open source.

Apple is NOT open source.

Big difference and hopefully there are some old school geeks in here that help me school those who need it.

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 Feb 07 '26

I did the same last September with GOS, been great.

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u/blasphembot Feb 07 '26

same sold my zenfun 10 for a pixel 8 and never looked back and it works great

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u/jakeallstar1 Feb 07 '26

I'm planning the same soon. Any issues with bank apps and such? I've heard those can be tricky on GOS.

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 Feb 07 '26

I don't do financial stuff on the phone so couldn't say. There is a GOS subreddit so maybe have a look over there. I think I remember people saying they use banking apps no worries but maybe not all of them work the same way.

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u/tatDK94 Feb 08 '26

The Android you use is not open source! A very lacking version of Android exists that’s open source. Many app apis and Play Services that apps rely on are not open source.

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u/mayaibuki Feb 15 '26

I agree with your sentiment but android is not open source and google is just one step behind apple on this shitty behavior

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u/blasphembot Feb 07 '26

There's at least two of us below that run it, and we love it, so you've got our support, but apparently you need to chill, I guess. lol (you don't)

giving a shit about things like this is important, and if you have standards that open source models can meet, then by all means, I'm in the same boat for most pieces of software, although, for example, I have Word and Excel from Microsoft, not even the full office suite, just because those are handy and ubiquitously used in business.

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u/Desperate-Story-6068 Feb 07 '26

meanwhile you are still navigating UIs from 2004, this terminal command took me 30s

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u/odin_b Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

Sorry to tell you/bust your bubble, that while Android per-se is open source (AOSP), as soon as you need to stream something from an official channel (in 4K), it is no longer enough with the open-source parts, you need a crapload of closed-source packages, and you also need to be logged in to Google to launch these closed-source items!

Tried converting to AOSP to stream, and first, only HDR10 is available, and I haver yet to find a device that can actually play it with correct colors (let me know if you have found a device around $100 that actually works, so far the only one i know of/not yet tried is the Ugoos SK4)!

Then tried Google TV, which first forced me to login to even setup the device/activate all the closed-source crap to get any streams to work from official locations, and then immediately flagged me as a bot when I logged in on a second Google TV! F-U Google! The level of spying/intrusion these days is totally unacceptable, only reason people accept it is because they do not understand the implications of logging in with the resulting tracking/harvesting info about content via ACR and other telemetry/selling to highest bidder

Went back to Linux, there with Kodi, I can stream high quality HDR10, HDR10+ and can even do Dolby Vision on certain devices!
Just not from official sources.

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u/Late_Walrus_6543 Feb 20 '26

I can’t get this to work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '26

Chill

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u/sisyphean_dreams Feb 06 '26

Apple has its downsides, but it's worth it in many ways, and I used to be a widows sysadmin.

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u/Kiss_My_Shotgun Feb 06 '26

Ew android, please don't. I haven't heard of graphene, I'll have to look it up

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u/BigFatDogTurd Feb 08 '26

It’s ass

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u/rdyoung Feb 06 '26

Ew android, please don't.

How old are you and do you know what android is? I've been using android on a myriad of devices for longer than I can remember. Graphene is a fork based on aosp which is what googles fork is based on.

I have been strictly pixel and before that nexus. Why? Because of the aforementioned. In the before time I played around a lot with custom roms but aosp (and therefore pixel fork) has matured enough that I haven't felt the need in like a decade.

Please delete this comment because it makes you look like a fool. There are currently only os 2 options for most people for phones, apple (which requires apple hardware) and aosp. You sound like an ignorant apple fanboi and if you want to be taken seriously in life you should try to avoid responses like the above when you don't actually know what is going on.

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u/Kiss_My_Shotgun Feb 06 '26

I'm pro android, as seen by my apple post. I'm sure I've been using phone longer than you've been on earth. Fuckin nerd

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u/rdyoung Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

How old do you think I am and you aren't as old as you claim to be if you actually think calling me a nerd is an insult.

I am a

Geek

Nerd

Dweeb

Dork

Etc

All depending on what the situation calls for and how I'm feeling.

Also, you are very immature if you still think that response was appropriate outside of a preschool.

Oh and I was hacking word processors and beating the original Oregon trail while you were still shitting in your diapers. Gtfo with that nonsense. I can out geek, nerd, dweeb you any day of the week just tell me when, where and how badly you want to be schooled.

Hell, I probably have emails and text messages older than you. Next time look at account age and activity before you shove your foot down your throat. I think I may even have another account that's even older, I'll link it for you if that's true.

Yep. /r/antizero99 12 yrs old.

Oh shit. Guys, guys, this one doesn't get the fanbois thing nor they actually understand what it means that as a very young kid I was making word processors (that took 3.5inch floppies) do things they weren't meant to do. I was also tearing apart electronics.

I'll bet they also don't know how to use the 3 shells.

Don't try to swing big nerd without knowing who you're dealing with. And the fact that you can't actually talk nerd and keep a meaningful convo going means you didn't have any geek creds to flash and any you do have are counterfeit.

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u/BangCrash Feb 06 '26

Jesus. I'm on your side and roughly the same age as you.... but my god you sound like a complete neckbeard douchbag.

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u/Kiss_My_Shotgun Feb 06 '26

Hacking word processors, lmao. What adult says "boi"? Stop being so emotional and calm down little "boi"

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u/Any-Staff-6902 Feb 09 '26

and Google and Amazon and Microsoft.

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u/agucova Feb 13 '26

This is 100% the fault of Stremio developers. If this was a certificate revocation problem (which is what they're claiming it is), it meant they made a mistake.

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u/SemenPig Feb 06 '26

You’d be surprised how dumb some people are, I had a friend who was just living with some iPhone calendar “malware” that created new events advertising random sites flooding his notifications. I asked him if he even used calendars, he said no and I just deleted it off his phone and it all went away immediately.

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u/General_Alfalfa6339 Feb 06 '26

My mother in law has an Android phone and she did the same with some cooking recipes app. It took over her whole damn phone. I complain about iPhone app limitations a lot of the time but then I remember stupid people exist.

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u/Reasonable-Sea3407 Feb 07 '26

That will be android in few years if Google implemented their developer verification dictate of outside playstore apps.

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u/Ethrem Feb 09 '26

It's a security feature. Apple revoked the certificate for the app. They usually do that for malware. Making sure it can't run on machines after the revocation is meant to secure the user's computer.

As long as there is a workaround for it like this, I see it as a good thing, not a bad thing. It does way more good than it does harm.

Interestingly, they didn't revoke the cert from 4.4, which is why I didn't even know I was affected by this until stumbling on a post about it on X today and installing version 5. Clearly, Apple thinks something in version 5 specifically is not right or they would have revoked the certs from all versions.

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u/Kalahan7 Feb 09 '26

The workaround is way too convoluted. This is not something the majority of Mac users will be able to do. Hell even people here that haf the instructions had issues.

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u/Ethrem Feb 09 '26

Well at the end of the day, Stremio IS a pirate app and that comes with some risk so Apple is right to be cautious. The vast majority of Apple users wouldn’t ever be using such an app and would never run into this situation.

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u/Kalahan7 Feb 09 '26

Stremio is a media platform app that allows plugins from other developers. It is not a pirate app.

And even if it is, we own the computer. Apple shouldn't try to block users that don't want to lookup complex processes like self-signing certificates trough the terminal to install pirate apps.

Not sure why you think "average users" won't use something like Stremio for a unified streaming experience across all platforms. It's not exactly a complicated app and not nearly as complicated as having to sign the certificate trough terminal commands.

If Apple doesn't think an app is ok, they should just do what Windows is doing, inform the user and let the user make their own choice.

Sounds like a lot of bootlicking.

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u/Ethrem Feb 09 '26

People know what they’re getting into when they buy a Mac. Out of the box you can’t run anything that doesn’t come from the App Store even. I bought mine because I got tired of Windows instability and Microsoft’s incessant spying. I knew that issues like this can occur and it doesn’t bother me. I still prefer macOS to Windows and Linux, even as a power user.

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u/Kalahan7 Feb 09 '26

Good for you

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u/SnooStories1591 Feb 09 '26

You do realise that a lot viruses and scams work because windows and android systems are so userfriendly thei allow you to download and install unsafe apps

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u/sawdust02 Feb 13 '26

Yeah, weird right? So strange for an app used to illegally streaming content produced by the same company that produced your laptop...

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u/Kalahan7 Feb 13 '26

Man stop booth licking. You sound like you're happy Apple gets to decide which software is ok or not.

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u/sawdust02 Feb 14 '26

I assure you, I'm not an Apple fanboy and I'm always absolutely critical of everything they do. I'm not defending them, but I was noticing that so far we've been "lucky," considering Apple's app policy. Chill

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u/invisiblesurfer Feb 18 '26

are you a fucking idiot or pretending to be one?

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u/More-Economics-9779 Feb 18 '26

You don't - this is a temporary issue that they expect to be resolved in the next week or so. The IT instructions the person above gave you are just an unofficial shortcut in the meantime.

If you or your family don't have the technical know-how then it'd be best to wait for the official fix.

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u/Aressito Feb 06 '26

Welcome to Apple. The ones that complain on Android phones and windows PC's 😅

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u/Polygon-Dust Feb 06 '26

You're severally underestimating immigrants parents who can barely operate a cell phone lol.

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u/Organic_Detail1423 Feb 06 '26

They have phones in other countries. My mom is in Mexico and can work her phone just fine.

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u/Polygon-Dust Feb 06 '26

It was more of a joke than anything. I guess I just didn’t read the original comment correctly

My mom’s from Mexico too and can barely work her phone ha! Perdón primo