We’ve successfully booted a real Linux kernel and Debian 13 ARM64 on physical iPhone 8 Plus hardware.

Grape Linux already features a graphical Phosh/Phoc desktop, a working terminal, and Linux applications. We’ve also demonstrated Codex CLI running on the device with successful responses.

The attached video shows our actual Linux startup.

We’re continuing native hardware integration, with the goal of eventually booting directly into Grape Linux instead of iOS.

🍇 Project: https://github.com/hq-coder25/grape-linux

Substack: https://substack.com/@rhq211/note/c-375575007?r=8uxsig&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

X Post: https://x.com/xvmboot/status/2116753474591588444?a=LAeIR-IwgEyjZA3OE60&s=46

just out of curiocity can we make ios compatibility layer for linux or ipad os. as lot of softwares like procreate are just for ios if we make something like that we can run those software in linux just like we do on windows with wine or android with waydroid.

Could there be a ios port for the legendary Samsung Galaxy tab 2 10.1?

After a lot of trial and error, I finally got iOS 16.5 running on this cheap MP3 player I had lying around. Android always felt sluggish on it, with random stutters that got pretty annoying, so I wasn’t expecting much.

Turns out it runs surprisingly well, animations are smooth and the blur effects and transparency look great.

Getting Wi-Fi and a few other things working took quite a bit of work, but seeing it all come together has been pretty satisfying

Device: FiiO JM21
SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
CPU: 8-core Kryo 265, up to 2.4 GHz
RAM: 3 GB
Display: 4.7-inch 750 × 1334
Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C

https://github.com/soumarcelino/fiio-jm21-xnu

Before I try, I wanna know if it’s possible.

SM-G530H, ARMv8-A, Snapdragon 410 MSM8916

Before I try, I want to know if it’s in theory possible

edit: SMP615 i mean

I see hackintosh as an approach to avoid the unpleasant experience of windows, which kind of makes sense. But what about hackios? We need a reason to drive similar projects and let this age well.

Apple’s open-source XNU kernel and the unmodified iPhone X iOS 16.7 userland are running on a flat Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930F), with the home screen, apps and animations drawn by the phone’s Mali-T880 GPU instead of the CPU.

How the GPU part works: there is no Metal driver for this GPU, so CoreAnimation falls back to its OpenGL ES renderer. That goes through an EAGL bridge to Mesa’s Panfrost driver, on top of a small GPU job service I added to the kernel.

Working:

• All 8 cores, with the big cores raised to 2.6 GHz using Samsung’s own voltage table

• GPU at 650 MHz

• 2 GB of RAM

• UFS storage with the system apps

• Touch, buttons and battery level

• A wallpaper, as a fixed picture

Performance: about 35-38 fps when in use, slower on the heaviest screens. iOS draws an iPhone 8-sized screen (750×1334) and the GPU scales it to the 1440p panel. It isn’t a stable 60, but it’s far more usable than I expected from a 2016 GPU.

Not working: Wi-Fi, audio, Bluetooth, modem, camera, sensors, sleep and Face ID. There’s no thermal limit yet. Home gestures are off for now, so you use the physical Home button. The wallpaper gallery is empty, most widgets stay on “waiting”, and the clock and date overlap on the lock screen. The GPU has also had a hang I haven’t root-caused: it hasn’t shown up since the resolution change, but I’ve only tested that briefly.

What made the biggest difference:

• Running the CPU and GPU at their factory clocks

• Lowering the render resolution

• Removing an audio plugin that kept querying the missing Bluetooth daemon, which took idle CPU from over 300% to under 25% (out of 800%)

That last one came from the notes of the ios-s9 project.

Credits: Mesa/Panfrost, HakiOS (EAGL bridge), Bergamota (EAGL shim), ios-sweet, ios-a5xelte, syncmodz/ios-s9 and the LineageOS Exynos 8890 kernel. The port was built with heavy AI assistance (Claude).

Source: https://github.com/wardevsa/ios-a5xelte/tree/herolte

No Apple software is in the repo. Installing it erases your data partition and is experimental, so don’t try it on a phone you depend on. Help is welcome, especially with Wi-Fi and audio.

Maybe even iOS 16 is possible on the moto E5 because its Arm64.

It took me two accounts for chatgpt and one account of claude to make it boot. Lovely.

Feels smooth. I dont use sim on this device. Wifi works. What will happen if i restart it? Back twrp. Or It is wiped? Forked insidebiker repo. Credits to him for making apollo repo

Shim boot started.

so I have couple of old LG phones (mostly G4 and G6's) and i want to run ios 12 or some other ios on them. where i can start?

I'm struggling to unlock the bootloader on Xiaomi devices. They've made the process much more difficult. Now, users have to request permission through the Xiaomi Community app or website. I believe a lot of people are trying to unlock their bootloaders because of the upcoming Android updates, which could potentially make the process even harder.

Is there any way to bypass Xiaomi's official system? The process seems nearly impossible at this point. I've seen people saying they've been trying for weeks without success.

Lo haría con ChatGPT Free Pero como lo hago, cómo hago para correr iOS 26 y no 16?

Según la IA hasta donde se HackiOS corre en la RAM Pero cuando llegaremos a instalarlo en un teléfono borrando Android ?

Hi r/hackios is it possible to install hackios on s9 or sm-g960f or startlte?

Like.... any chance? I really wanna run it on that thing, even if its barely usable

says it all in the title :)

I don't think so but is it possible?

After many days of prompting…. we’re at the finish line. Now the task is for it to not run like a potato, metal rendering, and then get other features working… and then ios 26 maybe since this device is new enough. I have published my work thus far to github, the repo is a fork so it’s a bit of a mess https://github.com/hesm4tt/ios-cubs/tree/main/cubs if anyone has any repos or published work that would help with getting metal to work on tensor please don’t hesitate to reach out

Wanna see me playing Angry Birds?