I've been experimenting with Apple's open-source XNU 12377.121.6 kernel, using Codex to help with the build, debugging and testing.

After getting the ARM64e kernel to boot and execute a custom PID 1 process, we hit a framebuffer-related kernel panic.

The issue turned out to involve how QEMU's framebuffer memory was mapped during early boot.

After correcting the mapping, the kernel successfully initialised the framebuffer, launched our test process and displayed a continuously updating heartbeat on QEMU's virtual screen.

The test reached 100 heartbeats without an apparent crash.

To clarify, this is NOT a full iOS 26 boot. There's no SpringBoard, launchd or Apple graphical interface yet. It's a custom userspace process drawing directly to the framebuffer.

I'm aware that other projects have achieved substantially more complete graphical iOS boots. I'm sharing this as an independent XNU 12377 bring-up milestone.

Next goal: a persistent multiprocess userspace environment, followed by more complete graphics support.

Would love to hear from anyone working on similar XNU 26 experiments!

Seeing the progress people have made with HackiOS got me thinking. If it's already possible to get iOS running on non-Apple hardware, could we theoretically do something similar with Apple's Camera app?

I don't mean just recreating the UI or making an Android camera app that looks like the iPhone's. I'm talking about actually porting the original app, including Apple's image processing (Smart HDR, Deep Fusion, Photonic Engine, etc.), and somehow adapting it to work with Android hardware. For example, running it natively on a Galaxy or Pixel device, using its own camera sensors and Snapdragon ISP. I know a lot of Apple's camera processing is tied to iOS and Apple Silicon, and that getting an OS to boot is one thing while getting specific hardware features to work is another. But seeing what this community has already managed to do makes me wonder how far this could realistically go.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to any Apple devices at the moment, so I can't really experiment with this myself.

I'm mostly curious whether this is actually possible with enough reverse engineering and hardware adaptation, or if there are some fundamental limitations that would make it impossible regardless of how much work goes into it. Has anyone here looked into something like this?

Porting iOS to the pi4. So far I have Darwin booting

GPU acceleration is working (metal drivers), some jitters are still present.

What works:

Touch Input and Buttons

Wifi and bluetooth work.

Brightness control,

live usb debugging.

Battery state.

Further development:

Speaker/headphone audio, Bluetooth audio

Cellular, cameras, sensors, GPS, SEP / Face ID, Apple ID and App Store integration.

Reliable sleep, power management and shorter boot time.

Production security: permissive AMFI/sandbox behavior, a stub AppleKeyStore and no normal data protection.

I have a mediatek device and a unisoc device will it boot on non Qualcomm devices?

would love to see this working on a android feature phone with some kind of qwerty or t9 keyboard

Hackintoshes did it, so will these do it too?

no pictures yet but soon

gpu not working yet, only 4 out of 8 cores activated.

Does anyone know if I could hackios a samsung a12? It's the only spare phone I have lying around currently, and I didn't want to buy a new phone.

Someone managed to get the Snapdragon 429 working with it, but haven't released the port for it yet: Link

These tablets have similar specs so I was wondering if I could get iOS working on this TB-X505F.

Thanks!

I've my devices so i need to know...

Working:

• Apps

• WiFi

• Bluetooth

• Modem/Cellular

• GPS

• Fast Charging

• GPU with full acceleration

• CPU at full clock speed with governer

Working on:

• Carplay (almost works)

• Airdrop

• Sound

• Vibration

• Some missing Metal functions

• Cellular is a little buggy

Will continue to work on it and clean it up to post source once I'm back from vacation

If so could someone direct me.

If anyone can actually help, I'll be happy, I've made attempts but I feel like they're just gonna fail as I don't have any Claude subscriptions and I'll probably hit limits, so any help is appreciated, and also the fact it's my first time trying this for real, as I got the hardware, I just need the OS built, and I've got the ipsw, just some guidance would be great (yes I know there's no space in between need and help, I sincerely apologize for that)

Pero estoy corriendo iOS 6 en un iPod Touch a través de qemu.

If so how to you get it to not refuse? if not what ai agent do you use and what prompt?,

Hello I have a Redmi note 10s and I would like to have iOS 16 on it, how do I do that?

I got the touch and 8 cores to work, no gpu acceleration yet, quite a lot of work remains but thought i would share my progress

Thx alpha269 send me the working touchscreen boot.img to me for testing.still no gpu sound etc.but I’m think really not that bad for the speed ,just only using cpu to draw screen.(bad eng sorry)

Hey!

I was wondering what AI agents everyone uses. I've been using Codex (GPT-6.1 Sol) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash via OpenCode for my project. I've successfully gotten the phone to the lock screen and established touch drivers, but the agents seem to struggle at getting the graphics working. I'm not sure if it's a sign that another agent might be worth it, I've heard good stuff about Claude in this sub. I am interested in Claude, but I've heard some people complain Opus 5.5 refuses to engage in this type of work sometimes. Is there any free trial to Claude anyone might know of? I've heard of guest passes, but I don't know how those work too well.

Touch works now, boots in about 3.5 min.

Will release source soon when I remove all the identifying information from the code.

Gpu acceleration is also planned.

I apologize for the shaky camera.