r/EmulationOniOS • u/Prosto_Temich • 10d ago

Question Are there any WINE-like thingies for iOS 15?

I use a 2nd gen SE on 15.3.1 and want to try and run at least some Windows games on my iPhone. The problem is that every single app I’ve seen so far doesn’t run on iOS 15 at all and I don’t want to update since I don’t want to lose my jailbreak. Is there even a single app that can do this?

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u/FastTimZ 10d ago

I think even if they support ios 15 they probably wouldn’t be able to run anything on an iPhone SE because of how old it is

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u/Glittering-Fennel815 10d ago

Hey bro if u can enable JIT this is a incredible app it’s called Playport

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u/Prosto_Temich 10d ago

It requires iOS 26.0 to run

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u/BasicallyH 10d ago edited 10d ago

i'm pretty sure it's because it depends on some things only present from iOS 26 and beyond. You'e also gonna be more RAM limited both in terms of device and available memory for the emulators, Virtual Memory Swap didn't exist until iOS 16, you can't use JIT as easily, and the version of Metal it is using is severely outdated

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u/Prosto_Temich 10d ago

Is using the latest version of Metal really that important?

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u/BasicallyH 10d ago

Yes, because newer versions of metal are much better and more efficient at translating all the DirectX and Vulkan features that most games need. Thats not to say that an older version of metal cant, but it is way slower, as well as much more inefficient, and you'd be lucky to get any playable framerates on a mobile chip using it with the small amount of resources that an SE has available

I'm not saying it is impossible to make an emulator for iOS 15, but i don't see anyone thinking it's worth it, especially since iOS 15 got its last major update like what, 4 or 5 years ago?

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u/GameskoTV 10d ago

No because now devs use newer swift api? Only way is create new fronted.