How to Sneak up on Fortnite on Your IPhone
Nvidia’s cloud-based streaming service, GeForce Now, now runs on iOS and iPadOS. It offers a browser-based format that gets around some of Apple’s streaming restrictions, and its trick is paying off. It’s a great way to stream games from the cloud or from your local gaming PC to your iPhone.
Unlike Stadia, Luna, or Xbox cloud streaming, which sell à la carte games or have their own spinning library available to subscribers, GeForce Now lets you stream any PC game you own on Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG (coming soon). to your iPhone or iPad.
Fortnite is among the supported games, allowing it to be played again on iOS despite being banned by the Apple App Store, but it’s not quite ready yet. Nvidia says it is working with Epic to provide a touch- based version of Fortnite for its services so that mobile users can play without the need for a Bluetooth controller, which is required to play all other games on GeForce Now.
We’re not sure when this new touchscreen version of Fortnite will arrive , but you can play other PC games on iOS via GeForce Now while you wait. All you have to do is visit play.geforcenow.com on your iPhone or iPad, follow the onscreen instructions to create a new account and start playing – you don’t need to install any apps on your device.
GeForce Now has paid and free membership options . Free accounts are limited to 1 hour game sessions. You can play unlimited sessions per day, but you will be automatically disconnected and need to reconnect to the GeForce Now servers every hour, which could potentially wait in line if the service is busy. Paid members can play for much longer and get higher connection priority as well as improved RTX graphics for $ 5 a month or $ 25 for six months.
Other Ways to Hide Fortnite on Your iPhone
For iOS owners who don’t want to wait for the touchscreen version of Fortnite on GeForce Now, there are two other apps you can use to download the game to your iPhone – with some compromises, of course.
If you have a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One (or soon PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X), you can use any platform’s mobile app to stream games from console to iPhone . Home streaming is a free feature on PlayStation and Xbox, but you must play Fortnite using a controller, not touch, as you will be streaming the console version to your iPhone rather than playing the mobile version.
This story was updated in November 2020 with new information about GeForce Now.