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Is there a way, without jailbreaking, to use that spare iPhone at home, powered on and connected to the internet, to run/host some server software?
by darkwater 2y ago
Is there a way, without jailbreaking, to use that spare iPhone at home, powered on and connected to the internet, to run/host some server software?
- amelius 2y agoAsk this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455642 Apparently, the people at Apple are very open to using your own server software with Apple hardware.
- lucb1e 2y agoYou think they're an employee? I read it as a tinkerer like you and me. Their profile doesn't say unfortunately
- talldayo 2y agoThe simple answer is no, not really. I wouldn't even trust it for baseline FTP provisioning, much less anything like Plex that might need working GPU drivers. The emulated shell is really not enough to do anything remote on an iOS device, in my experience.
- manmal 2y agoThere‘s UTM SE on the App Store, which might be ok to use for very minimal distros (no JIT): https://apps.apple.com/at/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id1564628856?l=en-GB https://apps.apple.com/at/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156... If you had a second spare iPhone, you could run it semi tethered with JIT and just any ARM/x86 OS: https://docs.getutm.app/installation/ios/ https://docs.getutm.app/installation/ios/ Though a JB would be more convenient. And things start to get interesting with M1 and its virtualization support.