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Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

Hacker News | Oct 22, 2026 | aghuang

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HackiOS boots Apple's open-source XNU kernel (xnu-8796. 121. 2, the kernel of iOS 16. 5) on Android phone hardware and runs the unmodified iOS 16. 5 user space on top of it: launchd → backboardd → SpringBoard → apps. Our own EFI loader, our own replacements for Apple's closed drivers, a UEFI port, and a Linux Wi-Fi driver on a compatibility layer make that possible. No Apple files are in either repository. ios165/fetch. sh downloads the iOS 16. 5 IPSW from Apple's own CDN to your machine and extracts what is needed there.

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