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Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
- orangea 1mo agowhat is "PCC"?
- busymom0 1mo agoPrivate cloud compute I think. I learnt about it today too from this reddit post which mentions how: > At WWDC, Apple announced that starting in the 27.x versions of iOS, macOS, etc., devs would be able to call Private Cloud Compute directly from Swift with no additional API configuration. Presently, the only way to get free cloud inference is by joining the App Store Small Business Program. https://www.reddit.com/r/appledevelopers/comments/1vztibh/reminder_take_advantage_of_the_app_store_small/ https://www.reddit.com/r/appledevelopers/comments/1vztibh/re...
- boredatoms 1mo agoIs this what apple does in xcode?
- vlovich123 1mo agoIf you’re talking about the simulator, no. That doesn’t virtualize - it literally just runs it locally on your machine. Less RAM overhead and CPU since it uses your normal instruction set and doesn’t run a separate kernel and userspace.
- valleyer 1mo agoAt least historically, it actually did run its own entire userspace, including daemons (all the way to launchd, IIRC), etc. All compiled for Intel, back in the day. Shared the kernel though. Many of the nominally shared system pieces between Mac and iPhone (like Foundation) actually had many subtle compile-time differences.
- theflyestpilot 1mo agoso can this receive web push notifications?
- ironqcold 1mo agoInteresting project. If it actually works it opens up a ton of possibilities for testing and reverse engineering.
- TylerJaacks 1mo agoThis project is really cool its a shame you have to disable or partial disable SIP which can break some things.
- fishfasell 1mo agoYeah real shame that I know I could never run this on a corporate machine and only ever as a hobbyist.
- userbinator 1mo agoThat means you're working for the wrong companies ;-)
- sneak 1mo agoHave corporate buy you a research Air that isn’t on the MDM.
- catoc 1mo agoIf corporate wants they can still accept/trust a machine with partially disabled SIP on the MDM
- chews 1mo agoWhat a release! Congrats to the builder, lots of great work done here and in IOS profiling in general has been done here recently. Corellium went research only and I lost the ability to actually profile my applications the way I'd like. I've got a fun thing over coffee in the morning!
- krackers 1mo agoFeels weird that after their attempts to shut down corellium they themselves shipped the necessary bits to allow this https://github.com/wh1te4ever/super-tart-vphone-writeup https://github.com/wh1te4ever/super-tart-vphone-writeup
- sumedh 1mo agoWill this project make it easier to performance test Apps on the virtual iPhone?
- root9876 1mo ago> during iOS setup, don't pick Japan or the EU as your region (extra regulatory checks the VM can't satisfy) I'm curious what are these checks
- rootnod3 1mo agoFor Japan it might be the Felica chip.
- koito17 1mo agoThat would surprise me. I don't recall having to change my iPhone's region after moving to Japan. Transport IC cards in Apple Pay have "just worked". I am vaguely aware that some phone manufacturers silently remove certain NFC hardware (or disable some driver) in order to avoid paying Sony patent fees. Apple doesn't seem to do that, though.
- robert-boehnke 1mo agoThere were iPhones with Japan-specific hardware for transit cards in the past but as of a couple years ago, all iPhones have been compatible.
- numpad0 1mo agoOnly iPhone 7 had that limitation. 8 and later don't, and that was since like a decade ago.
- benoau 1mo agoIt will be to prevent access to third-party app stores as both the EU and Japan legislated they must be allowed. > In a support document about alternative app marketplaces in the EU, Apple explained that “device eligibility for alternative app marketplaces is determined using on-device processing with only an indicator of eligibility sent to Apple.” In practice, iOS users in the EU who want to install alternative marketplaces will need to set the country or region of their Apple ID to an eligible country or region. Moreover, they will also need to be physically located in supported EU countries. > In the case iOS users in the EU leave eligible regions, Apple will offer a “grace period” until apps downloaded from alternative app stores can no longer be updated. “If you’re gone for too long, you’ll lose access to some features, including installing new alternative app marketplaces. Apps you installed from alternative app marketplaces will continue to function, but they can’t be updated by the marketplace you downloaded it from,” the company explained. https://www.thurrott.com/apple/298862/apple-adds-some-conditions-for-using-alternative-app-stores-on-ios https://www.thurrott.com/apple/298862/apple-adds-some-condit...
- hamandcheese 1mo agoThis seams neat, but I'm not sure I understand the purpose/difference between this and using the iOS simulator.
- restes 1mo agoThe iOS Simulator consists of (some of) the userspace components of iOS compiled to run on macOS. This would be a full iPhone image running as-is via virtualization.
- RussianCow 1mo agoThat explains the difference, but what's the purpose?
- a012 1mo agoYou can test your application, game, website without a physical phone?
- leoh 1mo agoCan do that with the simulator too
- refulgentis 1mo agoRunning on ported userspace components, with a shim, isn't the same as running on the OS in itself. That really matters, sometimes. But not the vast majority of the time. (source: been coding iOS since pre-SDK iPhone OS 1.0)
- RussianCow 1mo agoCan you give some examples of where it matters? I'm genuinely curious.
- leoh 1mo agoWill Apple break this?
- dvduval 1mo agoWill there ever be a day where I could run this on a PC or something like it?
- greggsy 1mo agoProbably not, but you can run it on a Mac today.
- catlifeonmars 1mo agoDoes this include a virtual baseband?
- halfcat 1mo agoNo, only virtual GarageBand
- catlifeonmars 1mo agoYou have my angry upvote. GarageBand is an excellent app.
- senor_digimon 1mo agoCan this be used for account recovery?
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- unsupp0rted 1mo agoHuge win for TikTok region spoofers too
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- leke 1mo agoCan this be used to test the phone's browser on localhost?
- fredoliveira 1mo agoThis is virtualization, so localhost will just be the virtual iphone itself. But you should have some command of how hosts are resolved, so you can always point the browser to the device hosting what you want to test, no? Even easier, of course, is just using the iOS simulator included with xcode, which runs on your host computer. There, localhost resolves to your host computer.
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- m132 1mo agoNote that, unlike Corellium, this isn't about emulating an iPhone. Apple is providing an iOS kernel for Virtualization.framework in PCC/cloudOS images and this project pairs it with the iOS user-space and patches to make everything run. Applications can very easily tell it apart from the real thing. More details here: https://github.com/wh1te4ever/super-tart-vphone-writeup https://github.com/wh1te4ever/super-tart-vphone-writeup
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- ewjt 1mo agoThe handle is publicly[1] tied to a South Korean security researcher, and there’s no evidence that it refers to white supremacy. [1] “CVE-2025-43347: JZ, Seo Hyun-gyu (@wh1te4ever)” https://support.apple.com/en-us/125115?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://support.apple.com/en-us/125115?utm_source=chatgpt.co...
- thenewwazoo 1mo ago[flagged]
- ripbozo 1mo agoYou are expecting everyone to be as aware of these issues as you are. I don't think white supremacy has as large of a share of the mindspace in south korea as you think - not every issue (even if it has a wikipedia page!) is burned into everyone's mind across the globe. But I am happy to hear that every time you pick a username, you make sure it is free of dog whistles in all cultures and that the letters and numbers cannot be picked out or rearranged in a way that hints at one.
- select1 1mo ago[dead]
- thomc 1mo agoFantastic project, I use it regularly to test apps and there is a vphone-mcp which allows agents to control it, take screenshots and navigate the UI!
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- discordance 1mo agoIs this safe? There are some binaries in scripts/resources that you need to run as root. No idea what's inside them.
- dsalzman 1mo agoI better not get more spam iMessages!!
- zuzululu 1mo agothis is potentially useful for me do you know if this can fully handle callkit?
- wartywhoa23 1mo agoCan Appium be used to control this?
- imshaikot 1mo agoCan you use real Apple Wallet and ApplyPay (web) in the virtual device ? I've been struggling apple-pay test automation and simulators can't do the real apple-pay integration.