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It's technically already possible by installing/virtualizing macOS and giving the SMC emulator a plausible serial number - it's tolerated by Apple for now, howe

It's technically already possible by installing/virtualizing macOS and giving the SMC emulator a plausible serial number - it's tolerated by Apple for now, however they can trivially block this (both for Hackintosh as well as this iOS emulator) by requiring a real serial number.

Gigachad 5y ago
>by requiring a real serial number I assume you could just buy some $10 iphone 3gs to grab a number from.
trollied 5y ago
They have started to introduce random serials to some product lines: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/05/purple-iphone-12-randomized-serial-number/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/05/purple-iphone-12-random... I imagine this will be extended in the future so that they can begin to clamp down.
- muttled 5y ago
  If you know a valid serial number (say from a decommissioned Mac) do you know if you're able to just use that or is there some sort of validation of the device to the serial number?
  - Ardon 5y ago
    There's no validation right now, but they could do that if they wanted to.
Quikinterp 5y ago
I have an old iPhone, could I use a serial number from that potentially?
icelancer 5y ago
I used a real serial number for this and still never had much success doing so, was a giant pain in the ass about a year ago.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  Surprisingly, in my case it worked first try. It needed a compatible wireless card being present though - I think the Wi-Fi MAC is also used as some kind of identifier in addition to the serial number alone.