Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

sheepscreek

Madness. I love it.

jgbuddy

amazing, but who is OO SEX GANG

hollowonepl

Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?

nullpoint420

I'm doing the same thing with my Oneplus 6T, I have Claude piloting my phone over adb booting new candidate kernels and checking the results What a time to be alive!

torben-friis

I wonder, why 16.5? (That would be 2023's versión). Not to detract from how awesome this is, just curious.

westurner

Does this make it possible to quality control iOS apps without MacOS runners with xcodebuild in CI like GitHub Actions?

sanid

This is going to be fun. There are already replica phones for the flagship phones that are running a shitty android version that has been customized to look like iOS. People need to tripple check now when buying older used iPhone models.

embedding-shape

What, no, why?! Joking but kind of also not, Apple is terrible at software, amazing at hardware, what the people (me) want is the opposite, Android running on Apple hardware :)

aghuang

I found the website to be quite nauseating to look at, so I decided to use the GitHub link instead. But it's quite impressive that it works on QEMU, POCO X5 Pro 5G and some Xiaomi devices too. Website is here: https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en Source Code: https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel

pmkary

Someone finally did this, wow! 2026 just keeps getting more crazy.

jgbuddy

Next; IOS will be decompiled and open source

saagarjha

Hmm. Maybe small iPhone might be easier to revive than we thought!

dj_io

Great work. This is neat kind of like age old there used to be hackintosh for macs. Now for ios. With this do you have access to app store. I think there is a unique identifier that android will lack for it to work.

bigwheels

Why do these demonstrations all stop at iOS 16? What changed with iOS 17?

diimdeep

Hardware is so powerful, that soon we will be able to run anything using anything, if you have access to whatever you need to run, and access is lacking only if it is streaming content from cloud or hardware encrypted.

Velocifyer

Can you make a GSI to run on any Android Phone?

1f60c

There is one, uh, minor drawback: > Does not work (yet) > > Charging under our kernel (the phone only discharges)

drnick1

It's interesting that this can be done, but why would anyone want to run iOS on Android devices? A more desirable outcome would be running a free Android distro like Graphene on Apple hardware. Or indeed just liberating phones controlled by Google by hacking the bootloader and replacing the OS.

zarmin

Amazing. On par with cutting off my leg before playing soccer.

jrmg

It has an, uh, interesting funding model: “$HACKIOS ON BNB CHAIN The project has its own community token, live on flap.sh. Each trade carries a 1% fee that supports the team and funds development.”