dipa-studio / ios-sweet

# ios-sweet
**Apple's iOS 16 running on a Redmi Note 10 Pro.**
This project ports Apple's open-source XNU kernel (xnu-8796, the iOS 16 generation) to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro (`sweet`, Qualcomm SM7150 / Snapdragon 732G). On top of it runs the **unmodified iOS 16.7.16 (20H392) userland of the iPhone X**: launchd, the system daemons, backboardd, SpringBoard and the stock apps.
As of **2026-10-18** the phone boots to the **iOS home screen**. You can unlock it, open Settings, pull down Control Center and the notification center, and use the touchscreen and the hardware buttons. Rendering runs entirely on the CPU; there is no GPU driver.
> Experimental bring-up, not a usable phone OS. Many things are missing or stubbed (see below), and Apple's security model is mostly switched off. It installs into the `userdata` partition and so **erases Android's user data**.
## What works
| Area | State |
| --- | --- |
| Boot | Stock Xiaomi bootloader → `fastboot boot` of our shim → XNU. Nothing is flashed to the boot partitions |
| CPU | 6 of the 8 cores (the six Cortex-A55s) via PSCI, 16K pages, GICv3 interrupts, timers |
| Memory | About 3.95 GiB of the upper DDR bank |
| Storage | Own UFS host driver; the iOS root is a journaled HFS+ volume in `userdata`, read/write |
| iOS userland | Real iPhone X 16.7.16 root filesystem and shared cache; launchd and the system daemons run |
| Display | Kernel IOSurface + IOMobileFramebuffer (`AppleCLCD`) services; CoreAnimation renders in software; frames are copied into the bootloader's framebuffer. Presented to iOS as an iPhone X panel (1125×2436) |
| GUI | backboardd, SpringBoard, lock screen, home screen, Control Center, notification center, Settings |
| Touch | Goodix GT9896 over I²C (GENI), rail enabled through RPMh, delivered as HID digitizer events |
| Buttons | Power, volume up/down (PMIC through SPMI) as HID consumer keys; lock/wake works |
| Battery | IOPMPowerSource service (static 100 %, charging icon; real fuel-gauge readout prepared) |
| Device identity | iPhone X (`iPhone10,3` / `D22AP`): no Home button, gesture UI |
| Activation | Native "Hactivation" path of mobileactivationd, chosen through device-tree security status. No Apple servers involved |
## What does not work (yet)
- **Navigation:** you cannot leave an app (the home gesture and AssistiveTouch Home do nothing yet).
- **No Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, audio, camera, sensors, GPS or SEP / Face ID.** Daemons for them start and fail or keep relaunching.
- **No GPU.** Everything is drawn by the CPU at roughly 20–30 fps. The two Cortex-A76 cores are not used yet.
- **Few apps.** The image has only what is on the system volume. There is no App Store, no Apple ID, and some Settings pages are empty.
- **Slow boot:** about 4 minutes on the Apple logo.
- **Security is off:** permissive code signing (AMFI) and sandbox policies, a stub AppleKeyStore, no data protection. Do not put anything personal on it.
## How it boots
 [code] 
There is no serial port (the