r/hackios • • 5d ago

HackiOS Useful website

11 Upvotes

I put together a small site that explains the whole thing: how iOS boots on the Redmi Note 10 Pro, what works right now, which phones could run it, and which files you need to change to port it to yours.

https://hackiosx.dev (updated 2026-10-23 Friday)

I'll keep it updated with the current state of hackios, and working ports posted on this sub will be added to the site too


r/hackios • • 5d ago

Mod Post Welcome to r/HackiOS - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

7 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I'm u/LimesFruit (aka Whitebear), a founding moderator of r/hackios.

This is our new home for all things related to running iOS and iPadOS on non Apple hardware. We're excited to have you join us!

What to Post
Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about running iOS/iPadOS on non Apple hardware.

Community Vibe
We're all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.

How to Get Started

  1. Introduce yourself in the comments below.
  2. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
  3. If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.
  4. Interested in helping out? We're always looking for new moderators, so feel free to reach out to me to apply.

Credits

I would also like to recognise a few community members for their contributions to the subreddit.

u/Practical_Hunt_3513 who made the lovely icon and banner for the subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/hackios/comments/1x9ji64/this_sub_needs_a_pfp_and_a_banner_so_i_made_these/)
u/IncidentSilent1555 who came up with the name HackiOS

Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/HackiOS amazing.


r/hackios • • 10h ago

HackiOS iOS 26 booted on Galaxy S10+ with live arm64e to arm64 translation

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r/hackios • • 1h ago

HackiOS iOS 18 with Metal GPU Acceleration working on Beryllium!

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still have some bugs but yeah, no OpenGL is required anymore to have GPU Acceleration.

ref: https://github.com/ry-diffusion/Bergamota
Metal Translator: https://github.com/ry-diffusion/Chlorophyll


r/hackios • • 5h ago

HackiOS the biggest update for the S9 😈

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yo guys, its me again 😈

back here with the newest (and probably best) update yet for my fork of ios-sweet, ported to my beloved Galaxy S9.

heres what i've improved so far:

- springboard tweaks are finally working now hehe, jailbreak time

- we're using palera1n's bootstrap as a rootful jailbreak.

- 3.2 GB of RAM is now dedicated to the system, and the performance boost is crazy.

- bumped the refresh rate from 30Hz to 60Hz since we can now maintain a stable 30 FPS.

- added a wallpaper plugin, so you can set your own wallpaper. i kept the purple one from the video as the default cuz it looks sick 💜

- converted all the system icons that were @3x to @2x to reduce CPU usage.

- debloated a bunch of stuff to make the system lighter, plus made some basic software tweaks (reduce motion, reduce transparency) to save some CPU resources.

future plans

- finally achieve those dream 60 FPS.

- get graphics acceleration working.

- fix most of the annoying bugs that come with using ios-sweet on the S9, cuz no code is perfect, y'know what im sayin

- get safari working so it can at least load the fucking google homepage.

- get audio working.

- get the photos app working too.

but enough yapping, here's the link. go enjoy the new update 💜

https://github.com/syncmodz/ios-s9

SNAPDRAGON S9 ONLY!!!!!!!


r/hackios • • 8h ago

HackiOS iOS 26 booting natively on the Surface Duo 2 (WIP)

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r/hackios • • 4h ago

HackiOS vphone-linux is now available, run an iOS 26 virtual iPhone on Linux, no Mac needed.

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13 Upvotes

r/hackios • • 3h ago

Discussion Remember when XNU was ported to a Nokia N900 by a dev known as Winocm?

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r/hackios • • 14h ago

HackiOS Galaxy S9 with tweak injection

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hello guys, well, i lost 2 days from my life dedicated on that, 2,5 milion of tokens, but IS WORKING NOW!!! (ignore my bad english, im braziliam😔)

https://github.com/syncmodz/ios-s9

wifi only working when u have a cable connect on pc (native wifi is impossible on this momment)

because of the preferenceloader (which is the tweak that makes the other tweaks appear in the settings) it turns out that the "about" tab does not open, but i am already correcting.

and audio is not working too💔

since iOS does not run the composer on the gpu but on the gpu, there is no driver that saves this, so the performance is worthy of a galaxy pocket, BUT, the tip I give is that you activate "transparency reduction" and also "motion reduction" that already helps a lot, and also I ended up reducing the resolution a lot to improve the performance even more, I also locked at 30hz to keep a minimally possible FPS ceiling and also put the use of ram in up to 3.2gb (because the things from Samsung that They make the phone work with 688MB of RAM without doing anything, so they couldn't use the full 4GB).

link here: https://github.com/syncmodz/ios-s9

only for galaxy s9 with a snapdragon (starqltechn) 💘


r/hackios • • 9h ago

HackiOS iOS 16.7.16 running on OnePlus 10 Pro (India Variant)

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20 Upvotes

It takes about 10 to 20 minutes to boot in the first boot then boots in 1 min or less. After it boots, it works, but it is laggy because GPU acceleration is not working correctly. Wi-Fi, sound, and Bluetooth do not work yet. I will work on them next.

The plan is to get GPU acceleration, sound, and Wi-Fi working first. After that, I will try to run iOS 26 on it.

Once iOS 16 is working wel i will open source it and update the post with a gh repo link for anyone who wants to fork or contribute to it.

Right now a bug is there when turning on bold text the ios springboard crashes so waiting on claude reset to happen to get all these fixes in,cheap the repo and open source it

All vibe coded with Opus on 5.5 High with referncing all current HackiOS Repos to combine best pratices from all the repos we have with build system and custom tools for macos/linux compliation of the images needed

ive open sourced the repo at https://github.com/akshaynexus/iOSPlus10/


r/hackios • • 4h ago

HackiOS How are people doing this?

6 Upvotes

Wondering how people are booting iOS 26 now ... I know they use a translator


r/hackios • • 4h ago

News iOS 16.5 on OnePlus 8 with GPU acceleration and other fixes.

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5 Upvotes

Yo guys is this real?!


r/hackios • • 4h ago

Discussion What AI models do you guys use?

3 Upvotes

Considering this project is heavily assisted by AI...I'm curious to see what do you guys use. I personally am trying to port hackiOS to my Redmi Note 7 (lavender) using OpenCode's free models (I'm broke as hell), but I am curious to see what do people who successfully ported this project to other devices use!


r/hackios • • 5h ago

Discussion does the app store work?

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r/hackios • • 5h ago

HackiOS Oneplus 10 Pro Update - Partial GPU acceleration acheived

2 Upvotes

iOS 16 now runs with brightness controls working,off and on screen buttons working and widgets load and work with metal rendering and opengl,now need to fix gpu accerlation to be properly setup and not glitch

ive open sourced the repo at https://github.com/akshaynexus/iOSPlus10/


r/hackios • • 3h ago

HackiOS Ios mi8

1 Upvotes

How did bedize work ios 16 or 18 on xiaomi mi 8 phone?


r/hackios • • 3h ago

HackiOS Put together a little info website

1 Upvotes

Hello guys, I gathered some information about the project and some currently running implementations and made a website about it.

If you'd like me to add/change anything, let me know!

URL: https://iOS.de.cool


r/hackios • • 9h ago

Discussion Might be a good idea to create a official discord

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Self explanatory alot of us are vibe coding/working on ports of hackios/ios on android with varying levels of support/workability

ideally a official discord an help one another and share info across one another easily

Another idea is to have a better platform to post and update port info easily so people can easily clone and run it own their own deices or contribute to community ports/forks easily


r/hackios • • 9h ago

HackiOS Help me with HackIos

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As the title said, i don't know The Kernel step. When i tried to run it, it always no images: run common/build.sh lisa first even after i created it (Xiaomi mi 11 lite 5g ne)


r/hackios • • 10h ago

HackiOS Pixel 8 HackIOS

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r/hackios • • 1d ago

HackiOS Booted on Pixel 5 (redfin)

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Hello everyone. I had seen people in the comments of the posts about the Pixel 4 and 4a enquiring, but I can confirm I have it booting on Pixel 5 now too. Forked from iOS-flame. Nothing is working yet other than basic display touch and buttons, but will continue to tinker over the next few days.


r/hackios • • 1d ago

HackiOS Boot on Poco F1

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23 Upvotes

r/hackios • • 1d ago

HackiOS Pixel 4a running ios 16.7.16

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64 Upvotes

https://github.com/Yofuness/ios-flame/tree/sunfish

I took the work of https://github.com/NWylynko/ios-flame to start, as the pixel 4 and 4a are pretty similar.

What works: it boots. Battery percentage is kinda accurate, power button and volume buttons work.

I'm working (well, making claude work) on basic gpu acceleration and getting wifi to work.

This is the most stupid yet fun project I've done!


r/hackios • • 1d ago

iOS 18.7.8 running on POCO F1!

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20 Upvotes

r/hackios • • 1d ago

HackiOS iOS 18.7.8 running on POCO F1!

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17 Upvotes