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Hackers Are Running Apple's iOS on Android Phones for the First Time
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Hobbyists are booting Apple’s iOS, the software that runs iPhones, on Android phones to prove that they can, and video demonstrations are going viral on social media.
Key facts
- One clip of iOS 16 on a Redmi Note 12 has passed 2 million views on X, and another developer posted a build running on a Nothing 3a
- The “readme” file from its developers calls the project an “experimental bring-up, not a usable phone OS,” and says the Redmi Note 10 Pro reaches the lock screen, home screen, Control Center
- For now, the practical ceiling of a Redmi Note 10 Pro running iOS is looking at the iOS home screen
- A separate group calling itself OOSexGang says its HackiOS project runs iOS 16.5 on a Poco X5 Pro, using a custom UEFI (the firmware that starts a device) and the XNU kernel
Summary
Videos of iOS 16 booting on a Redmi Note 12 and a Nothing 3a spread on X, with the Redmi Note 12 clip posted October 18 passing 2 million views. The open-source ios-sweet project pairs Apple's XNU kernel with unmodified iOS 16.7.16 files on a Snapdragon 732G phone, but Wi-Fi, mobile data, audio, camera and graphics acceleration do not work yet. Android first ran on iPhones through iDroid in April 2010, and Corellium's Project Sandcastle repeated the feat on newer iPhones about a decade later. One clip of iOS 16 on a Redmi Note 12 has passed 2 million views on X, and another developer posted a build running on a Nothing 3a.