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claude code turned my dead old android into an iPhone running iOS 16… it sat in a drawer for 3 years. 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage that was always full, a battery that died by lunch, and whatsapp took 9 seconds to open claude code went...

140,904 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce •via X (Twitter)

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Monreal profil fotoğrafı
Monreal20 gün önce

here's the prompt. plug your old android into your laptop, open claude code and paste this: "Help me revive my old Android phone and make it look and feel like an iPhone. Go step by step, explain each step in plain language, and ask me before every change. Never uninstall anything, only disable, and keep everything reversible. 1. Connect Install adb if it's missing. Tell me exactly how to turn on Developer options and USB debugging on my model, and when to tap 'Allow' on the phone. 2. Back up first Save the full list of installed packages to backup/packages.txt and write a script that re-enables everything you disable later. 3. Memory Check if my phone supports virtual RAM (often called RAM Plus, Virtual RAM or Memory Extension) and turn it on to the highest setting it allows. If it doesn't support it, tell me honestly. 4. Storage If the phone has a memory card slot and a card in it, walk me through formatting the card as internal storage so Android treats it as one drive. Warn me first that this erases the card, and remind me to copy anything on it. 5. Speed List the preinstalled apps and sort them into: bloat, manufacturer trackers, and system apps the phone needs. After I approve, disable the bloat with pm disable-user --user 0. Set all animation scales to 0.5x and stop apps I don't use from running in the background. 6. Battery Switch on dark mode and turn off background syncing and services that wake the phone up at night, only the ones I approve. 7. Ads Set Private DNS to an ad-blocking provider so ads are blocked across every app. 8. The iPhone look Install an iOS-style launcher, control center and icon pack that I approve, set it as the default home screen, and set up the dock and home screen like an iPhone. 9. Finish Show me a before/after summary: RAM, free storage, boot time, and what you changed. Remind me that undoes everything. If something doesn't match my phone, stop and tell me instead of guessing."

deezzex profil fotoğrafı
deezzex20 gün önce

honestly the virtual RAM turning 2GB into 8GB sounds like a solid hack until you stress test it

Monreal profil fotoğrafı
Monreal20 gün önce

yeah fair, it's not real RAM. it's slower and you'd feel it in anything heavy like games. but on a 2GB phone the win isn't speed, it's apps not getting killed every time you switch. whatsapp and chrome stay open in the background now instead of reloading from scratch

Wade Watts profil fotoğrafı
Wade Watts20 gün önce

Why did you downgrade it?

X0-none profil fotoğrafı
X0-none20 gün önce

You mr have inspired my late night fun tonight

Monreal profil fotoğrafı
Monreal20 gün önce

So, how's it going?

X0-none profil fotoğrafı
X0-none20 gün önce

Not home atm, will try it out though will be sure to reply back how it went after :)

Romez Millz profil fotoğrafı
Romez Millz20 gün önce

@AImonreal And?

X0-none profil fotoğrafı
X0-none19 gün önce

@AImonreal Well closest you got is more of a lookalike, but Hey phone got smoother at least

TechVerser profil fotoğrafı
TechVerser19 gün önce

Bro ran a bash debloat script, installed an iOS launcher APK, and credited Claude Code with porting iOS to Android 💀

System Failure profil fotoğrafı
System Failure20 gün önce

Great! Now it dies after breakfast And demands a $100 cable to charge it

Romeo Maina_Mombasa_001 profil fotoğrafı
Romeo Maina_Mombasa_00120 gün önce

Could you mae a YouTube video on how you did that??? Its impressive... The fact that you disabled dozens of bloat inbuilt apps... Naiss...😎😎😎👍👍👍

luisl 🇻🇪 profil fotoğrafı
luisl 🇻🇪20 gün önce

How can you use whatsapp when you cannot even use wifi or cellular data 😭 No GPU accel, no drivers for anything no nothing "Yo big Claude port the android drivers to xnu"

🇩🇿🇷🇺 profil fotoğrafı
🇩🇿🇷🇺20 gün önce

@grok possible ?

fospa profil fotoğrafı
fospa19 gün önce

How is the performance now? I assume even iOS16 could actually be a heavy lift for an old phone. Or did the debloat make it faster for real?

🏴‍☠️$̲̅(̲̅Rizzler)̲̅$̲̅ profil fotoğrafı
🏴‍☠️$̲̅(̲̅Rizzler)̲̅$̲̅20 gün önce

See I'd like to do this for my iPad mini load a more current OS. I just want to surf the web and have surfshark on it

Colin L profil fotoğrafı
Colin L20 gün önce

Is this a joke?

Spoler0 profil fotoğrafı
Spoler020 gün önce

Need Claude pro ?

Farzi Jutt profil fotoğrafı
Farzi Jutt20 gün önce

If the phone bootloader is locked it is not possible

Murad profil fotoğrafı
Murad20 gün önce

Any android after Android 6 supports sd card conversion to “internal storage”. You should try it

HASSAN profil fotoğrafı
HASSAN20 gün önce

Don't listen to people. Those who are doing such stuff knows way more than ordinary coders. That's hype cresting strategies by con companies like conthropic and scamgpt.

sasunaind profil fotoğrafı
sasunaind20 gün önce

I fed your post and prompt to Claude code and it said it cannot convert it into ios... It will stay as android but it can get ios themes from playstore andgive it that feel..

ilsor liamsi profil fotoğrafı
ilsor liamsi20 gün önce

Bullshit claude advertising🤣

Rafael Salazar profil fotoğrafı
Rafael Salazar20 gün önce

Nice! Nice to see some people using ai for more than writing emails.

Tony Scott 🧄(🦆🐓🐵🧪🧬🪪)❌=↑🧄🧄🧄🥩🥚🧀↓👽👾🤖 profil fotoğrafı
Tony Scott 🧄(🦆🐓🐵🧪🧬🪪)❌=↑🧄🧄🧄🥩🥚🧀↓👽👾🤖19 gün önce

@trentster

66 profil fotoğrafı
6620 gün önce

Found it on Android with name .thumbnail

Tim Maggs profil fotoğrafı
Tim Maggs20 gün önce

Finished my tv now time for the old phone...

Sergey profil fotoğrafı
Sergey20 gün önce

В России про такое есть две хороших фразы (уберу мат) - "Наступило время охерительных историй" и "Отличная история - жаль что враньё".

TaxTox profil fotoğrafı
TaxTox19 gün önce

Disculpen, Que requisitos tiene que reunir el móvil ? Gracias!

sosyal medya profil fotoğrafı
sosyal medya17 gün önce

Debloat + dark mode + private DNS + an iOS launcher is a solid weekend project. It's not an iPhone, it's not 8 GB of RAM, and a dead battery is still a dead battery. Useful tips, clickbait framing.

Hidden Terps profil fotoğrafı
Hidden Terps20 gün önce

merging the old memory card into internal storage is smart. did apps get slow when they install on the card tho, those old cards are painfully slow

🟢 Dakari¥Doggz | AeUISHx profil fotoğrafı
🟢 Dakari¥Doggz | AeUISHx20 gün önce

you're welcome | what does he mean? you're welcome.

sergie profil fotoğrafı
sergie20 gün önce

ure memory will be dead soon, and so the phone, lol.

Qant Qantrom profil fotoğrafı
Qant Qantrom19 gün önce

пизДоБол 🤣🤣🤣 покажи код и реальные пруфы ,а голословную болтовню сгенерированную ИИ 🤣🤣🤣

Mr Dreamcast profil fotoğrafı
Mr Dreamcast20 gün önce

This looks like shit

Na21k profil fotoğrafı
Na21k20 gün önce

Wow, this is crap.

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Crane

929,620 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce

Claude Code found every photo i "permanently deleted" from my iPhone. 3 years of deleted photos and videos sitting in a hidden cache on my device that any app with file access can read. i plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to run a backup. had Claude Code doing the security audit from my last post. it flagged something i wasn't even looking for. a directory called PhotoData/Thumbnails with over 147,000 files. photos, videos, screenshots. every single one was something i deleted. photos from 2023. 2024. 2025. photos i deleted the second after taking them. photos i went into Recently Deleted and manually hit Delete All on. photos i deleted three separate times because i wanted to be absolutely sure they were gone. all still there. what was sitting in that cache: a photo of my passport i took for a visa application in 2023 screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible private photos i sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup a screenshot of my crypto seed phrase i took "temporarily" in 2022 a photo of my ID and credit card i took to remember the numbers and deleted 5 seconds later screenshots of my ex's private instagram stories i saved and "permanently deleted" in 2023 147,863 files in total. some of them were full resolution and all of them were organized by date going back to 2021. when you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS removes it from your camera roll and your Recently Deleted folder. but it keeps a compressed copy in a Spotlight search index cache. this is how your phone finds photos when you type a word in search. Apple never clears it. not after 30 days. not after a year. not ever. they told you it was permanently deleted. it wasn't. i checked which apps on my phone had Files and Folders access. 23 apps. weather apps. QR code scanners. PDF readers. a flashlight app i downloaded in 2022. any one of them could have been reading every photo i ever "deleted" this entire time. went from 23 apps to 3 in about two minutes. the full step by step is below. takes 2 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone with an iPhone.

starmex

392,079 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce

Claude Code found spyware on my wife's phone. It had tracked her for 14 weeks and logged 9,408 places she had been… She thought she was just being paranoid, but someone really did know where she went every single day, down to the minute. Every 90 seconds, even with the screen off, her location went out to a single number. I plugged her iPhone into my MacBook and asked Claude Code what was running that she never installed. It flagged an app called "Device Sync" with no icon, which had come in with a free "Wi-Fi Booster" she installed in August and forgot about. Then it traced where all of this was going. The phone on the other end had been 2 miles from our house the whole time: reports to → +1 (312) *** **19 carrier → Verizon device id → IMEI 35 ********** 82 receiver last seen → 2.1 mi from our home last ping it sent → 41.8**, -87.6** · 1 min ago When she started feeling watched 2 weeks ago, she turned off location for every app, but this one kept sending it anyway. My guess is it found her through the Wi-Fi networks around her. Claude wiped the app on its own, and we passed everything it had recorded to the people who handle this. Who was on the other end, I don't know yet. I had no idea an app could follow someone like this without ever asking permission. If you want to check yours, plug your iPhone into a Mac, tap "Trust" and ask Claude Code which apps send data in the background and to whom. The 5 steps and the exact prompt I used are in the comments. Save this and check the phones in your family tonight.

goldtooth.exe

24,329 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce

You can get back every photo you ever "permanently deleted" from your iPhone. Claude is a f*cking treasure... Claude Code found years of them sitting in a hidden folder on my laptop. I plugged my iPhone into my laptop to run a backup. I had Claude Code doing a security check at the same time, and it flagged something I wasn't looking for: a directory called PhotoData/Thumbnails, inside my old iPhone backups. Thousands of files. Photos, videos, screenshots, and a lot of them were things I had deleted. Photos from a couple of years ago. Screenshots I took and deleted a few seconds later. Stuff I went into Recently Deleted and cleared. Some of it was still sitting there. What I found in there: - old screenshots of banking apps - photos I deleted right after taking them - random pictures I didn't want on my phone anymore - a few things I specifically remember deleting more than once Every time you back up your iPhone to a computer, it saves a full copy of your camera roll, thumbnails included. When you delete a photo on the phone later, that copy stays on the computer. Mine went back years, and none of the backups were encrypted. I checked which apps on my Mac had Full Disk Access. There were more than I expected, including apps I downloaded a long time ago and forgot about. Any of them could open an unencrypted backup. I deleted the old backups, turned on "Encrypt local backup" and removed access from most of those apps. The prompt I used is below. It doesn't take long if you already have a backup. How many apps on your laptop have Full Disk Access right now?

Deni

498,196 görüntüleme • 19 gün önce

Claude Code found 17,342 of my daughter's photos on a server in Hangzhou. she's 16. she had her Hidden album locked with Face ID and thought nobody could see it. an app she downloaded from the App Store has been sending every photo on her phone to China for 10 months. i checked her two friends' phones the same night. same app. same server. her phone was lagging so i connected it to my MacBook. Claude Code flagged an app called "GlowCam - Beauty Filter" with 4.2 million downloads. it was uploading her entire photo library every 6 hours between 1am and 5am while she was sleeping. → app → "GlowCam - Beauty Filter" (4.2M downloads, 4.7 stars) → server → 112.17.***.63 → location → Hangzhou, China → total files uploaded → 17,342 → active since → January 2026 → permissions → camera, photos, microphone, location every photo she ever took. every screenshot. every image anyone ever sent her. everything from her Hidden album that she locked with Face ID thinking it was safe. Face ID only stops a person who picks up the phone. an app with Full Access to Photos opens the Hidden album like any other folder. there's no green dot for that. two of her friends were at our house that evening. i asked them to let me check their phones. both had GlowCam installed. → my daughter's iPhone 16 Pro Max → 17,342 files uploaded to Hangzhou → her friend's iPhone 15 → 9,740 files uploaded to the same server → her friend's iPhone 15 → 6,210 files uploaded since April 3 phones on my kitchen table all sending photos to the same folder in China. i asked Claude Code to trace where the files went. it found photos from all 3 phones on a site that sells stolen photo libraries sorted by age and location. → www.le***dumpcc → their city listed, folders tagged "16-19" → tme/ph***vault_cn (41,000+ subscribers) → folder link shared 2 weeks ago → buyer access → $8 per library someone paid $8 per library. 3 libraries from 3 teenage girls. Apple approved the app that made it possible. then Claude Code scanned every other app on all 3 phones and found 2 more doing the same thing. → "PhotoRoom — Background Eraser" → uploading to a server in Jakarta → "FaceTune Lite — Selfie Editor" → uploading to a server in Mumbai what Claude Code did on all 3 phones: → killed every upload process and purged all caches → revoked Full Access from every photo app → switched everything to "Limited Access" → filed DMCA takedowns on the site and the telegram channel → turned on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud on all 3 accounts the site took the photos down in 72 hours. the telegram channel is still up. i called both their parents that night. i told all 3 girls the apps were slowing their phones and i deleted them. none of them know what i actually found. if your kid has a beauty filter or photo editor on their phone right now there's a real chance it's doing exactly this. check Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos and count how many apps have "Full Access." every single one can read the Hidden album, the Recently Deleted folder, and every photo your kid has ever taken. my daughter had 11 apps with Full Access. she needed 2. the prompt is in the first reply. run it on every phone in your house tonight. takes 3 minutes. save it and send it to every parent you know.

starmex

1,274,287 görüntüleme • 12 gün önce