14 comments

  • aghuang 31 minutes ago
    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

    • dpacmittal 0 minutes ago
      I'm surprised Camera works. Even postmarketOS has difficulty with camera on most devices.
    • semolino 21 minutes ago
      Are those tubal ligation scars on the mascot?
    • simlevesque 17 minutes ago
      Thank you.
  • bigwheels 3 minutes ago
    Why do these demonstrations all stop at iOS 16? What changed with iOS 17?
  • pmkary 20 minutes ago
    Someone finally did this, wow! 2026 just keeps getting more crazy.
  • dj_io 16 minutes ago
    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.
  • sanid 37 minutes ago
    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.
    • gruez 34 minutes ago
      >Does not work (yet):

      >App Store content and Apple ID sign-in (no Secure Enclave; FairPlay daemon exits)

      That seems like a huge roadblock, even if were able to resolve all the driver/OS issues.

  • torben-friis 44 minutes ago
    I wonder, why 16.5? (That would be 2023's versión).

    Not to detract from how awesome this is, just curious.

    • MBCook 5 minutes ago
      They crank up security every release. Perhaps ones after that were somehow drastically harder?
  • saagarjha 16 minutes ago
    Hmm. Maybe small iPhone might be easier to revive than we thought!
  • jgbuddy 17 minutes ago
    Next; IOS will be decompiled and open source
  • nullpoint420 45 minutes ago
    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!

  • hollowonepl 45 minutes ago
    Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?
    • gruez 35 minutes ago
      No, because iPhones still have locked bootloader, and on an Android phone this Frankenstein of an OS is likely to have worse security than just grapheneos.
  • jgbuddy 47 minutes ago
    amazing, but who is OO SEX GANG
    • freedomben 40 minutes ago
      my guess is a lot of Java people who refuse to get on the functional train
  • embedding-shape 34 minutes ago
    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 :)
  • westurner 38 minutes ago
    Does this make it possible to quality control iOS apps without MacOS runners with xcodebuild in CI like GitHub Actions?
  • sheepscreek 48 minutes ago
    Madness. I love it.
    • Grombobulous 42 minutes ago
      My “AI is ending the world” feelings are definitely going in another direction in the past few weeks with the reverse engineering, jailbreaking, and porting scene.

      Microsoft, Google, Oracle, etc, just invested all their money into a technology that will make their software worthless. As Ronald McDonald once said, I’m lovin’ it.

      • anthk 3 minutes ago
        If you think about it, home users will get free MIT licensed clones for Adobe/Autodesk/Solidworks and Microsoft. The companies will just get trained people in their homes for almost free and they will happily pay for support for Adobe/MS et all.

        - Optimized and ultra-hardened Office for macros and features? Pay.

        - CUDA optimized PS -with inline assembly maybe even from Rust- and more, 24/7 support with a huge Adobe asset pack to start with? Pay.

      • add-sub-mul-div 33 minutes ago
        Was your prior feeling about AI based on the sum total of its negative externalities for society, or its not having produced enough gimmick software projects?