Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

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Are those tubal ligation scars on the mascot?

I'm surprised Camera works. Even postmarketOS has difficulty with camera on most devices.

Thank you.

For that warm feeling you get, when Apple turns their legal lasers on you.

One thing that occurs to me is this project is a way to get a fully jailbroken iOS. You can tweak the kernel and go nuts. Can't do that on an iPhone.

to finally have a Blue iMessage bubble in your group texts

>Does not work (yet):

>App Store content and Apple ID sign-in (no Secure Enclave; FairPlay daemon exits)

That seems like a huge roadblock, even if were able to resolve all the driver/OS issues.

Happy user of 15.8.8 (05/2026) here. Confirm the lack of many apps but still enough for some users: - maps, google maps, osm clients... - whatsapp, discord, telegram... - bank, raintoday, spotify... - all iOS default apps!

I wonder how they landed on 16.5

They crank up security every release. Perhaps ones after that were somehow drastically harder?

ISA - iOS subsystem for Android

Single use OS

Pack it up and go home, everyone. The alpha-release doesn't chart. Time to throw in the towel. /s

I hope that continued advancements in AI make it impossible for outfits like Apple to maintain closed systems that lock the device owner out of having any control over their own hardware. We're obviously not there yet -- I'm sure 1000 things won't work on a device with this running, but it's going to be a game of cat and mouse, and mouse is moving a lot faster than cat can now.

Decompiled and easily available if you know where to look? Sure. Seems likely.

But "Open Source" is a description of the licensing terms, and it ain't gonna be that. Apple will sue hosters into oblivion. It will only be available on pirate sites.

The guy who did it is a genius

Secure Page Table Monitor and Trusted Execution Monitor

No, because iPhones still have locked bootloader, and on an Android phone this Frankenstein of an OS is likely to have worse security than just grapheneos.

my guess is a lot of Java people who refuse to get on the functional train

That's exactly what I was analyzing. They go viral very quickly, and there's no way to verify if they contain viruses or steal information.

Opinions vary quite a bit on that. I imagine the appeal of this is similar to that of hackintoshing: Apple software with the diversity of generic hardware.

Personally speaking as someone who's had to use both platforms in varying capacities in the past decade I do not find myself fond of Android, particularly modern Android. When I booted up an old Android 9 device a few months back I was struck with how much more appeal that version held compared to its contemporary counterpart.

> Apple is terrible at software

You can’t write something like that and then follow up with

> what the people (me) want is the opposite, Android running on Apple hardware :)

Not with a locked bootloader, not yet anyway.

Blue bubbles.

My “AI is ending the world” feelings are definitely going in another direction in the past few weeks with the reverse engineering, jailbreaking, and porting scene.

Microsoft, Google, Oracle, etc, just invested all their money into a technology that will make their software worthless. As Ronald McDonald once said, I’m lovin’ it.

You are free to become "more cool" yourself

Different goals and motivations.

You chase the dragon by figuring out the problems over potentially a long period of time.

They are figuring out the problems and releasing various levels of POCs in a fraction of the time. It may not all be correct, but with how quick it is, there is plenty of time for refactoring if necessary.

> it's less cool than if someone had figured out how to do it themselves

Those people had 4 years to reverse-engineer iOS 16 on their own terms. I don't think there was any overwhelming technical motivation to spend time on a project like this.

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