HackiOS is a groundbreaking reverse engineering project that has... achieved a milestone once thought impossible in mobile technology: booting real, un-emulated iOS 16.5 software on Android smartphones. Developed by an open-source research team known as oosexgang, the project has successfully brought Apple closed operating system to life on hardware like the Poco X5 Pro, select Xiaomi handsets, and QEMU virtualized environments. Historically, projects like Corellium Sandcastle demonstrated Android running on older iPhone chips, but HackiOS marks the first public instance of native iOS running directly on standard Qualcomm Snapdragon Android hardware. At the technical core of HackiOS is Apple open-source XNU kernel. The team takes Apple public XNU source code release and heavily modifies it by integrating custom translation layers. On standard Android devices, the bootloader hands a device tree built for the Linux kernel to identify hardware components. The developers constructed spoofed device trees that trick the XNU kernel into believing it is operating on native Apple Bionic hardware. This allows the modified kernel to boot and hand control over to an unmodified iOS 16.5 user space system running on the device. What makes HackiOS particularly remarkable is its heavy reliance on generative artificial intelligence. The team utilized Anthropic Claude AI agents extensively throughout the development process, spending thousands of dollars in API credits to accelerate complex reverse engineering tasks. Claude analyzed low-level kernel crash logs, backported missing driver calls, generated hardware wrappers, and resolved deep architectural incompatibilities between Qualcomm processors and Apple hardware abstraction routines. This AI-assisted workflow allowed a small independent group to resolve complex kernel bugs that would traditionally require years of specialized human engineering. Despite the impressive boot sequence and basic user interface navigation, HackiOS is currently an experimental research framework rather than a functional daily driver. Crucial hardware capabilities like cellular radio connectivity, camera integration, and full GPU acceleration remain incomplete or non-functional. Execution runs are often temporary sessions designed to gather diagnostic data before returning control to the bootloader. Furthermore, while the modified kernel code is shared publicly on GitHub under open-source terms, redistributing Apple copyrighted iOS system files introduces significant legal questions. Even so, HackiOS showcases how AI tools can assist researchers in exploring previously closed mobile ecosystems (keywords: hackios, ios, ios 16, ios on android, install hackios, hackios tutorial, claude, iphone, iphone x, hackintosh, xnu kernel, macos golden gate, ios on xiaomi) #TechTok #cidstech #ios #hackios #androidshow more

Real iOS 16.5 run Android phone. HackiOS an open-source... research project that boots Apple's XNU kernel and runs the original iOS 16.5 on Android. not a theme or not a launcher. Yes, actual iOS components like SpringBoard, Settings, Safari, and other system apps running on Android hardware. - Can also run through QEMU on a Linux computer, without a physical phone. - Uses a RAM-based boot process on the supported device, so rebooting returns it to Android. it mainly involves kernel modifications, custom bootloaders, replacement drivers, and serious operating-system engineering.show more

Just install iOS 16 on Android. #ios #android #apple #techtok

Most people use Linux every day. But Very few... understand what actually happens after they press the power button. >>>Here’s the sequences Linux goes through before you get the login screen. Power button pressed → BIOS or UEFI initializes hardware and runs POST. Firmware locates the bootloader from disk. Bootloader loads the Linux kernel and initramfs into RAM. Kernel decompresses and takes control of the CPU. Memory management and the scheduler are initialized. Device drivers load to communicate with hardware. Temporary root filesystem mounts from initramfs. PID 1 starts as systemd and userspace begins. System services and daemons start in order. Login prompt or GUI becomes available. You run a command and it becomes a process with a PID. Process runs in user mode with limited privileges. When hardware access is needed, a system call is made. CPU switches from user mode to kernel mode. Kernel validates the request and executes through drivers. Result is returned back to user space. Scheduler continuously allocates CPU time across processes. Virtual memory isolates and protects processes. Filesystem manages data abstraction over storage. Network stack processes packets inside the kernel. Linux is the kernel coordinating hardware, processes, memory, and security through strict privilege control.show more

The way Apple Music looks so pretty on iOS... and yet so mid on Android 💔show more

Introducing real iOS and Android device testing, right from... your browser. If you've ever: 👉built a Replit ⠕ mobile app and had no way to test it on a phone 👉 been solely on Windows/Android and don't touch iOS …this is for you!show more

Comparing iPhone and Android emojis . . . #apple... #samsung #emojis #android #iosshow more

The iPhone 18 Pro is the perfect example of... how great hardware can be ruined by terrible software optimization. Even an $1,800 flagship can randomly get stuck on the Home Screen while running iOS 27.0.1 an update that was literally supposed to fix these issues.show more

🫧Fresh from the sea to your twitter feed The... iOS ripple effect from WWDC24 demos And it works on iOS, MacOS, Web, and Android Code 👇show more

v0.10.0 is out! 🚀 🆕 Easily upload files to... device and open the filesystem in Finder. Works on both Android and iOS 🔥 Huge thanks to xjki for contributing this feature!show more

🧃 Introducing stereOS: a Linux based operating system hardened... and purpose built for AI agents. It's clear that agents need an ACTUAL operating system (not what people are calling an "OS") to witness the full breadth and depth of their capabilities while mitigating the blast radius of autonomous, untrusted actors. But there are so many problems with AI sandboxes today: * Going out to the apple store and buying a mac mini will never scale and is way too expensive (obviously) * Running in Docker is too restrictive (agents can't stand up their own container infrastructure, no sub virtualization, docker-in-docker is very broken) * Firecracker strips all the hardware so GPU PCIe passthrough, secure boot, FIPs, etc. is out of the question. * Native VMs are too fat and the overhead of 1 agent per VM is too much. stereOS takes a different approach: it's a full NixOS system that you boot and then kick off agent sandboxes inside with gVisor + /nix/store namespace mounting. Each agent gets their own kernel and the /nix/store is read only by nature. Even if the agent was somehow able to escape the gVisor virtual kernel, they'd land on the NixOS system as the "agent" user! Not your actual hardware!! If you want to take a defense-in-depth approach, we support "native" agents that run at the system level kicked off by our `agentd` utility. These agents, on their own, can manage and kick off other sub agents using the internal sandboxing mechanisms. Today, we're open sourcing all of this: * stereOS: our purpose built Linux OS - * masterblaster: client utility to launch, manage, and orchestrate agents - * stereosd: the stereOS system control plane daemon - * agentd: the stereOS system agent management daemon - Give it a try, throw us a star, and let me know what you think 🧃⭐️show more

Android 🤝 Apple Kudos to Google for making file-sharing... between the Android world and Apple devices much easier, all without having to install an extra app. On top of that, the transfer speed is extremely fast and the entire process is reliable.show more

I’m just gonna say it: I’m disappointed with iOS... 27. - It is fast, sure. - It is snappy too. - It fixes many bugs that were there since iOS 26. - It improves Liquid Glass drastically. The problem is, when I heard at WWDC26 that Apple is making iOS 27 all about optimization and polish, I was expecting iOS to return to its former glory of iOS 15. But, iOS 27 is not even 70% polished as iOS 15 was. There’s so many little things and attention to details that iOS 15 had and iOS 27 simply doesn’t. Here’s a few examples: - When you picked up a call before the contact poster update in iOS 17, using the swipe gesture, the swipe indicator itself transitions into the red hang-up button. Smoothly. On iOS 27, there’s no such transition. It just happens. - On iOS 27, the Photos app is still very slow and janky in the Collections tab. It takes several seconds for everything to load. - Just look at the Safari below. It’s just so smooth, flowy, and animations are designed so well before the Liquid Glass update. iOS 27 Safari feels like a huge downgrade. I was expecting iOS 27 to work on these little details around the system that have been going away since iOS 16. But it didn’t.show more

Everyone’s looking at the fold. We’re looking at what’s... underneath it. 👀 Apple’s first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, brings a 7.6-inch display when opened, but the bigger shift could be happening inside. The A20 Pro is built for faster on-device AI, while iOS 27 adapts the experience as the phone changes form. Add a more deeply integrated Siri and AI-powered camera features, and this starts looking like more than Apple simply catching up with foldables. Apple may be late to the folding-phone party. But it’s arriving with hardware, software and AI designed to work together from day one. While the fold gets the headlines. The intelligence behind it might be the more interesting part. #Apple #iPhoneDuo #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Techshow more

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⚡️The Mobile #wallet on Android and Apple #iOS has... ARRIVED!⚡️ Your gateway to managing digital assets seamlessly is here. Track prices, manage your portfolio, and engage with our ecosystem like never before! Get started today:show more

2,500,000+ connected devices! 🚀 Hyra AI's edge device network... is scaling faster than ever. Get ready for a global swarm of smartphones, IoT & hardware powering decentralized AI. Every device counts. Every connection builds the future. Download to try NOW! 🍎iOS: 📱Android:show more

Excited to share the passion project I’ve been working... on for the past bit! Gazooks! is a mobile tabletop party game that challenges both trivia and reaction speed. Try it today on Android & iOS:show more

The Amiko app is live on the Solana dApp... store, and it’s our biggest release yet. Your Amiko twin doesn’t live at your desk anymore. Give your agent a task on the train. Run a compatibility profile when you meet someone. Do research, write code, build in the creative studio, whatever you need, from wherever you are. No laptop required. No waiting until you get home. Solanamobile users get two things Android and iOS won’t have at launch: Amiko token and crypto integration and on-device AI inference. Your twin runs locally on your phone if you want it to. Your behavioural profile, your data, your work, your twin. All on your hardware. AMIKO runs on OpenHermit, our own open-source agent runtime that we built in-house and released to the community. Most agent systems are designed for one agent talking to one person. OpenHermit is built for something different: agents talking to each other, coordinating across tasks, and collaborating with multiple humans simultaneously. That’s what makes features like compatibility profiling and multi-agent workflows actually work. We built it because nothing that existed was designed for this. Android and iOS are coming. Crypto integration and on-device AI are Solana Mobile exclusives. Most AI answers your questions. Amiko is an extension of you. Download →show more