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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. 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 decompiled iOS apps 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.
==ROMs==
https://archive.org/details/ipaarchive is the best source for classic ROMs. Just search your app or find collections with your app in it. https://ipa.decrypt.day/ is the best source for modern app ROMs that are all free.
==Emulators==
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