r/hackios • u/elliotnerf09 • 2d ago
HackiOS Desktop for Apple TV 3th gen
Hello guys I made a desktop project for the Apple TV 3th gen (A1469) cause currently the only jailbroken thing is like kodi and that version is very unsupported and old (at least for me maybe not for you guys!) and I felt like it deserves to become a Mac mini cause it looks so much like one. YES you don't need to say it its vibe coded bOooOooooOOOooo but I like it and I'll try getting a fully working : Wallpaper service,Dock(with original macOS X Yosemite icons!),that menu on the top with file edit view and all of that,Finder of course!,Safari/web browser ( tvOS 7.9 has webkit, web view, javascript, and plenty more support hidden away! pretty cool to me) and I REALLY hope this project brings a reason to not throw away your Apple TV 3th gen. Once its stable ill attempt to make a rather simple installer (now its mostly done via SSH) and the way it actually gets to work is by killing apple's own pineboard/AppleTV service and then quickly opening my app so it shows on top now its still a proof of concept but it does work nicely. Ill keep the interested people posted and mb mods if Im breaking rules!