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: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.

:A promising new endeavour that aims to run older iOS apps by recreating standard iOS libraries instead of emulating all of an iDevice’s 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 apps, with other 32-bit iOS versions being planned. Development started in December 2022, and its first release, 0.1.0, came out in February 2023. Currently, it is only known to support one app, namely [https://archive.org/download/iOSObscura/iPhoneOS%202/com.ooi.supermonkeyball/ SEGA and Other Ocean’s ''Super Monkey Ball''] – the dev’s inspiration for the project – but development is still ongoing. To run an application, you must unzip the IPA app dump, place the *.app folder inside touchHLE’s main directory, and then run it from the command line. The accelerometer is controlled through a joystick’s left analog stick. It is still a very barebones experience, but the one game it supports is fully playable and runs full speed even on mid-range laptops, and it’s still very early in development.

: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.