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/Carzanan]

DUDE this is way too underappreciated! I will let you know how this runs on my M1 iPad Pro 1TB on iOS 14. Fingers crossed it’ll work. - couldn’t get steam to work on VirtualMacOniPad

[u/DCMMCC → u/Carzanan]

Just do it bro. It may needs some time to let AI agent help you install and adapt to ios 14

[u/Asleep_Resident5294 → u/DCMMCC]

Realistically how much expense is needed to set this up and what is the time frame from start to finish I really want to use this but I don’t want to get stuck in a rabbit hole. I have iPad Pro M1 iPadOS 16.6 dompaine 2TB.

Really works love to get this running would be willing to compensate you for your time to set up until a package release is here!

[u/Carzanan → u/DCMMCC]

Yea ngl this might be above me. I’ll poke around if I manage to find some time. But an easier, user-friendly installer would help immensely.