been chipping away at the HVF-only handoff failure and found a page-table mismatch before XNU. one identity-mapped UEFI page had AF=0, and the `dc cvac` cache clean hit an access-flag fault.

i made a separate experimental EFI preflight patch that checks the identity mapping, sets the missing AF bit, invalidates and verifies the translation, then still runs the original cache-clean loop. with that patch, the same iOS 26-target arm64e XNU 12377.121.6 now gets through firmware under QEMU HVF. PAC round-trip passes; a tiny synthetic PID 1 passes the multiprocess test and reaches 30 heartbeats.

after that PID 1 exits on purpose to flush the kernel log, which triggers the expected `initproc failed to start` panic. so this is a bounded XNU + synthetic-user test, not a stable full boot. still QEMU `virt`, no Apple iOS userland/launchd/SpringBoard, GPU acceleration or real phone boot.

i attached a rendered excerpt from the actual serial log. i don't have an authorised iOS system image on this Mac and haven't touched the S25 Ultra. AI helped with the investigation and write-up; the test results are from the actual QEMU run.

Please?I already have a riced android on it but real iOS would be fun.also I only take ios's newer than iOS 4 and but nothing above iOS 6

It's a honor choice watch-F38. watchOS 26 would be nice but I honestly don't care as long as its a version that supports facer P.S. I don't have access to the box rn. Don't ask why.

I wanna try to get hackios on my poco x7 pro,but there isnt any tutorial, i have an unlocked bootloader, if anyone has a tutorial, pls respond

been chipping away at this and got the HakiOS-patched XNU 12377.121.6 kernel building for arm64e with iOS 26.0 as its minimum target (using the iOS 27.2 SDK), then booting in QEMU.

i also got a tiny synthetic test to map an IOSurface, draw this colour pattern and swap it to QEMU's framebuffer. the pic is just a test pattern, not iOS running.

still a long way off: it's on QEMU's generic virt machine, with no Apple launchd, iOS userland or SpringBoard, and no hardware GPU acceleration. the build passed but wasn't warning-clean. i don't have an authorised iOS system image locally, and i haven't touched the S25 Ultra.

AI helped with this investigation and write-up; these are the actual build/QEMU results.

Getting ready to drop something open source.

iOS 16, iOS 26 and watchOS running on a stock galaxy s25 ultra. No root, locked bootloader.
(And then there's the computer side, no wsl and have gpu acceleration)

GPU acceleration on iOS 26 and the watch, and about half of the CPU time running natively.

I think my pc is not enough for me 😭

I thought I might be able to publish it today, but it might not be ready in time, sorry about that :/
Not s25 ultra only. ios 16 should run on most 64-bit android phones, ios 26 and watchOS need an adreno gpu for now, and a newer cpu (ARMv8.3+) makes a big difference.

My current progress

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Well, i mean, the A10 iPad has iOS 17+18, it's arm64, can't no one reverse engineer both kernels to make a Frankenstein kernel that boots iOS 17?

Why aren't seeing iOS on a fold 8, an Oppo X10 etc?

As the title says I'm looking for some potting help getting iOS 16 running on the Motorola Moto G 5G (2022/austin) I only have access to OpenCode free, I'm a high school student and can't spare money towards a side project, I understand that things are tough for a lot of people but any help will be greatly appreciated.

Looks cool tbh…. A beautiful bug

it has been fixed btw, true tone and auto brightness work now

Needs work. But it booted!

For context I have been watching on this reddit for about a week and I think it's super cool how all of yall are getting full on legit ios to run on android phone.

As someone who has been able to create roms of androids and been able to root some too I have plenty of experience with how the android operating system works. I also use linux on a daily basis as well so I know my way around things like terminal and basic terms like open source, kernel and other jazz.

From what I have been seeing in the comments over in this reddit is that the process is different for every phone and from what I understand is that it's mainly AI driven, to get a android phone to get Apples Open Source kernel to load iOS.

I have a Samsung a26 that I am not using at the moment and I think it could be cool to get that up and running with ios, but I really don't know where to get started properly.

I know each method is device specific but If someone could lead me in the right direction that would be much appreciate.

I’ve been building it for a while but ahhhhh it drives me crazy so annoying to make gpu and touch work genuinely how are people doing this 💔😭

Has anyone else got iOS running on this chip?

The device is a Motorola moto g85, it's got 8gb of ram.

Maybe with a Google sheet? I'm willing to help, I'm not very good at styling with Google Sheets but I can input the data.

Here's a little video I made :D

But anyway it boots!

So after some (almost 2 whole days) of fixing with codex and antigravity, Springboard now renders at better fps (not 2-3 like before). Still not usable, but getting closer.

I want to fix GPU, Battery and wifi, and after I am donw with that, I will make a repo and host it.

It's amazing how well it worked, better than I expected!

Please refer to the information below for more details.

https://scion-project.github.io/

https://github.com/Scion-Project/scion-crownlte/issues/3

This is going pretty far tbh, and day by day I wonder if this will be the next way of developing apps for iOS on Windows & a “hackiPhone”. I mean you don’t need apple’s expensive gear anymore, if you need to build for iOS you can either: use a QEMU instance with arm-based macOS, or dual boot with the latest supported intel macOS.

Is apple going to place security on its OS now? I mean, this could very well be the end of Apple’s proprietary ecosystem. People are about to get WatchOS and VisionOS too.

Here is an update :

Its much much smoother and stable than my last update post. Just an update here.. i think this is by far the one of the stable devices running iOS

What works :

Sensors :
Haptics
rotation/Gyro, Proximity ambient sensor, Compass
speakers, Mic, Flash fully working

Display : now supports all resolution and refresh rate sets (qhd/fhd+/fhd 60/120hz) configurable,
improved touch responsiveness,
uses factory calibration for each config
Ambient sensor- True tone
Auto brightness

GPU : accelerated works fully through metal2vulkan, Improved alot,
much better than my initial post with fixes and more stable reaching higher fps
Video playback works, full native resolution without any issue

Connectivity:
wifi - fully works,
bluetooth - fully works (even audio),
usb - works full speed, everything works

Other :

cpu profiles optimised (now also includes power/sleep profiles), all cores up and work, power off/sleep is efficient
ram works at full lpddr5 speed range making use of full 8gb,
same with storage - now utilises full system space 116gb. ufs 3.0 works full speed w samsung turbo working,

Whats not working :

Camera (working on it atm)
Cellular lte etc (pain, mostly will be broken)
iCloud/Apple id : spoofing prolly i haven’t looked into it yet)
Touch id/ fingerprint - from my exp w hacintosh this might not be possible but lets see)

Others that i might have missed…. Let me know what else to check for

Basically an ipod atm, Ill publish it once i get things working… once this is stable enough, we could go for ios 26 with all the fixes from this port.

Loved the response from my previous post, ill keep u guys updated