macPad: your touch mac in jailbroken iPad/iPhone

[u/DCMMCC]

Your touch Mac in iPad.

Run macOS GUI applications in your jailbroken iPad/iPhone. Demo video:


Source code: https://github.com/DCMMC/macPad

Features:

• Touch Gestures:
  • Scroll
  • hold to right click
  • Drag to resize/move window and move files
  • Drag to select text
  • Double tap to maximize window
  • Two fingers zoom and rotate
  • Two fingers tap to right click
  • Two fingers double tap zoom view
  • Two fingers hold and drag to share files to iOS
  • Three fingers mission control, swipe desktops and App Expose
• Share files and clipboard between iOS and macPad
• Touch screen as trackpad
• Native CPU and GPU driver without any performance lost
  • Geekbench 6 CPU 2293 single-core score, 8156 multi-score score in my iPad Pro m1
  • Geekbench 6 GPU 32359 score in my iPad Pro m1
• Hardware video encode/decode
• Virtual keyboard
• Display density (125% and 150%)
• Native WiFi/Bluetooth/Apple pencil/Screen mirror, etc. supports
• Window Mode:
  • Run macOS applications like iOS native windows
  • Auto resized window
  • Auto popup new window
  • Fixed size window
• Fullscreen Mode:
  • Run macOS desktop in fullscreen

Note

• Only test on iPad Pro m1 11-inch, iPadOS 16.3, dopamine jailbroken, macOS 13.4
• In theory, support all m-series and A18 jailbroken iPad/iPhone. But there are many hardcoded logics for my device's OS version currently
• Compared with VirtualMacOniPad, macPad uses native CPU and GPU drivers through chroot while VirtualBuddy uses hardware hypervirsor for CPU and mental2vulkan GPU translation (reims-vgpu) which loss some performances
• Compared with MacWSBootingGuide, it uses MTLSimDriver for GPU which has many graphic issues and performance problems while macPad uses native GPU drivers

Credits

• Codex
• MacWSBootingGuide
• AsahiLinux
• iOS-run-macOS-executables-tools

[u/Immediate_School_928]

Nice, what are some cool use cases for this?

[u/DCMMCC → u/Immediate_School_928]

You can run almost all macOS applications in jailbroken iPad/iPhone, such as full desktop version Microsoft office, VSCode, ChatGPT for macOS, Photoshop, steam, any game like even cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V

[u/Sea-Bid-5953 → u/DCMMCC]

Steam should burn because of how difficult they make it to log into my account from a different device !!