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− | :''This page is about software that emulates | + | :''This page is about software that emulates IOS on other hardware, like desktops.''{{for|emulators that run on IOS|Emulators on iOS}} |
− | '''iOS''' and | + | '''iOS''' devices started the smartphone craze, which would go on to replace conventional mobile phones in both Japan (which had its own subset of cell phones) and the rest of the world, with more advanced touch-controlled devices. |
− | + | Unlike its direct competitor, [[Android emulators|Android]], there are practically no usable emulators, as the official iOS SDK (macOS-only) only allows for running your own projects, i.e., they run code generated for an x86 target rather than ARM code as used by iOS. Some simulators (e.g., [[BlackThunder]]) make use of the simulator in the iOS SDK to run a few chosen iOS apps that are recompiled for x86. Unlike previous emulation trails, BlackThunder first loads a highly trimmed Hackintosh image via VirtualBox, which loads Xcode and an iOS simulator into it, then runs iOS apps that are decompiled and recompiled for the x86 architecture. More recently, touchHLE managed to get at least one older iPhone OS app running by recreating some of iOS’s standard libraries and emulating just the iPhone’s CPU. | |
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− | Unlike its direct competitor, [[Android emulators|Android]], there are practically no usable emulators, as the official iOS SDK (macOS-only) only allows for running your own projects, i.e., they run code generated for an x86 target rather than ARM code as used by iOS. | ||
==Emulators== | ==Emulators== | ||
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! scope="col"|Name | ! scope="col"|Name | ||
! scope="col"|Platform(s) | ! scope="col"|Platform(s) | ||
! scope="col"|Latest version | ! scope="col"|Latest version | ||
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr> | ! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr> | ||
! scope="col"|Active | ! scope="col"|Active | ||
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]] | ! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]] | ||
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|[https://touchhle.org/ touchHLE] | |[https://touchhle.org/ touchHLE] | ||
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− | |[https://github.com/ | + | |[https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/releases/tag/v0.1.0 v0.1.0] |
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− | |[https://github.com/ | + | |[https://github.com/devos50/qemu/tree/ipod_touch_1g QEMU (fork)] |
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|[https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim ipasim] | |[https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim ipasim] | ||
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|[http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cycada/ Cycada] | |[http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cycada/ Cycada] | ||
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|Unreleased | |Unreleased | ||
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− | + | ;macOS Big Sur | |
− | + | :The 17th major operating system of the macOS line. It has support for iOS and iPadOS applications for Apple M1-based Macs. However, some apps are not installed due to Apple DRM. | |
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− | : | + | :A promising new endeavour that aims to run older iOS apps by reimplementing standard libraries instead of internal components. Because of this very high-level approach, no dump of the operating system is required. Its initial target is iPhone OS 2.x, with plans to support other 32-bit iOS versions, mainly 3.x and 4.x, as well as the iPad. Development started in December 2022, and its initial 0.1.0 release came out in February 2023. The only officially supported application is [https://archive.org/download/iOSObscura/iPhoneOS%202/com.ooi.supermonkeyball/ ''Super Monkey Ball''] – the dev’s inspiration for the project – which is fully playable and runs at full speed, even on mid-range laptops. To run an application, the *.app folder must be extracted from an IPA file to touchHLE’s main directory and ran from the command line. However, development versions allow IPA files to be run directly. A game controller is required to control the accelerometer. |
− | ; | + | ;QEMU (fork) |
− | : | + | :Based on earlier work emulating the S5L8900 and the iPhone 11 in QEMU. It can currently emulate an iPod Touch 1G running iOS 1.0, including iBoot, the kernel, and the Springboard, although it requires a modified NOR and NAND image. Some features, such as audio and Wi-Fi, are not emulated, and there are multiple crashes. Work is currently underway to emulate an iPod Touch 2G, which will require running iOS 2.x. |
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− | == | + | ==History of failed iOS emulation attempts== |
− | + | Many of the currently available '''"simulators"''' only try recreating popular iOS apps (like browsers) in a PC application with no real emulation involved. Some notable [[Emulator scams|scams]] in such fashion are called '''iPadian''' or variations on the name, and are often '''malware'''. | |
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− | + | * A project to emulate various smartphones (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Apple TV 2G) called '''iEmu''', started in 2011 but got mysteriously abandoned two years later before anything usable surfaced. All pages related to the project were removed. It's speculated Apple had a hand in this. | |
− | + | * Nowadays, a malicious APK file going by the '''iEmu''' moniker is also being circulated on blogs run by script kiddies claiming to offer a way to run iOS apps on Android. More often than not, they're uploaded with the intention of generating revenue from impressionable users (through pay-per-click URL shorteners) who fall easily for those types of scams. | |
− | + | * There has been a project to provide a runtime for iOS apps to run on '''Android''' called [http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cycada/ '''Cycada'''] (formerly known as '''Cider'''). Not much progress has been made, and the original author was accused of being a sellout for leaving the project to work as a kernel programmer for Apple. The project booted many 32-bit iOS apps successfully, albeit slowly. The last update to this project were in [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3135974.3135981 '''2017'''](NOTE: If you search "Cider APK", you will get iPhone 12 launcher adware, even on uptodown or malavida) | |
− | + | * There was also a project based on [[QEMU]] that usually went around by the name QEMU-s5l89xx (based on the part number of the original iPhone), or iVM. The last known commits to this project were in 2013, and it is unclear if this project will ever come to fruition. | |
− | Your best bet, until | + | Your best bet, until a new emulation effort is ever started, is to hope that whatever iOS app you're interested in gets an Android port. This is very rare, especially for Japanese ones, as Android is perceived to more open to piracy. That appears to be gradually changing lately and isn't of as much concern for non-gaming apps. |
− | + | iOS apps are distributed in the IPA format. Like Android's APK files, they are standard ZIP files, so their contents can be browsed and extracted most of the time. | |
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[[Category:Mobiles]] | [[Category:Mobiles]] | ||
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[[Category:iOS emulators|*]] | [[Category:iOS emulators|*]] | ||
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