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Posted by aghuang 17 hours ago

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices(github.com)
https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en
415 points | 142 commentspage 2
ivanjermakov 10 hours ago|
Maybe tomorrow we get Android running on the iPhone (and Linux on the iPad please).
fsflover 10 hours ago|
> and Linux on the iPad please

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25172883

ivanjermakov 9 hours ago||
UTM was almost good enough but the procedure to enable JIT every time you run it was extremely clunky.
HaloZero 6 hours ago||
If you can get iOS 16.5 to run on Android, how much more is a stretch to move it to Linux?
1f60c 15 hours ago||
There is one, uh, minor drawback:

  > Does not work (yet)
  >
  > Charging under our kernel (the phone only discharges)
xandrius 15 hours ago||
Single use OS
matneyx 14 hours ago||
The burningest of burners
lemoncucumber 12 hours ago||
That would be if "the phone only discharges, all at once"
ttul 15 hours ago||
Pack it up and go home, everyone. The alpha-release doesn't chart. Time to throw in the towel. /s
ksicmecidkci 11 hours ago||
Not even /s can save this one, mate. Poor form.
jgbuddy 15 hours ago||
Next; IOS will be decompiled and open source
xp84 15 hours ago||
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.
mschuster91 15 hours ago||
> 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.

Formally verified bootloaders and Secure Boot will make this all but impossible without hardware mods that do voltage glitching. It took 8 years for the checkm8 and usbliter8 exploits to be found, and I think that especially Apple has invested so much money, time and resources into securing their boot chain that the "best" thing we can hope for is a tethered jailbreak allowing a boot into another kernel.

cromka 9 hours ago||
It's only a matter of finding exploitative bugs, this already happened before in Apple devices precisely.
mschuster91 45 minutes ago|||
Bugs yes, sure, there will always be bugs. But it already is really, really difficult to get non-privileged code execution access, even harder to achieve tethered root access (i.e. root access that holds until a reboot), and all but impossible to get untethered root access that survives reboots.
j16sdiz 6 hours ago|||
one click exploit is fun when you trying to jailbreak your phone; it is a nightmare when a random website do that
compiler-guy 15 hours ago||
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.

redwall_hp 5 hours ago|||
It's going to be great, between this and the Adobe totally-not-using-any-decompiled-code-wink clones: people are going to get sued into the ground and LLM code is going to become radioactive to corporate lawyers. Especially when they find out that they also routinely spit out GPL code verbatim.

It's going to be hilarious.

cromka 9 hours ago|||
You can use debugger all you want, legally, then write the spec, then reimplement. You just can't look at the code.

We already have nearly a dozen of Adobe and Autodesk knock off apps.

compiler-guy 8 hours ago||
Yes. Those are clones or clonish. Not originals. So saying "Autodesk is opensource" isn't correct.

A clone of autodesk may be open source however.

therepanic 13 hours ago||
I suppose Anthropic has relaxed its safety checks to such an extent that Claude now agrees to port iOS to Android phones?
Geof25 13 hours ago|
ISA - iOS subsystem for Android
nickorlow 13 hours ago||
You mean the Android subsystem for iOS?
jrmg 14 hours ago||
It has an, uh, interesting funding model: “$HACKIOS ON BNB CHAIN The project has its own community token, live on flap.sh. Each trade carries a 1% fee that supports the team and funds development.”
rk06 4 hours ago||
hmm, if only the reverse could be done. i.e. running android on apple devices. i got an Ipad 8th gen and would love to install lineageOs on it
hollowonepl 16 hours ago||
Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?
gruez 16 hours ago||
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.
lunar_rover 10 hours ago||
GrapheneOS relies on either having access to full upstream support or being the upstream themselves. You get neither with an unofficial port of iOS. So no there isn't an opportunity here unless your threat model has Apple as the sole attacker.
raybb 6 hours ago||
Counting down the days until someone gets full linux on old ipads!
dj_io 15 hours ago|
Great work. This is neat kind of like age old there used to be hackintosh for macs. Now for ios. With this do you have access to app store. I think there is a unique identifier that android will lack for it to work.
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