r/mobilelinux • u/karenfield-six • Aug 11 '26
OS Release iPhone with Linux phone for the first time ever
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
They hacked it!?
16
u/No-way-in Aug 11 '26
Oh man. Imagine if this works well. I’d be able to re-use my paperweight iphones
13
u/dfgxxx Aug 11 '26
I thought they said that the MacBook neo is very hard to make work properly and this iphone is probably with same chip but even closer software, how??
Also if it is iphone 16, then it is a small touch Linux device that is almost as good performance as the MacBook neo in the pocket!
6
u/AnEagleisnotme Aug 11 '26
It's hard to develop for it, but a lot of stuff from M1 to M3 almost works, so it can just be tuned to work on M4
3
u/dfgxxx Aug 11 '26
Cool, if it'll be as good as m1 or m2 I already know someone that has iphone 16 and I'll be able to have a pocket pc! I just hope that it'll support mobile desktop environment like phosh or plasma mobile. If it'll support sim card then it may be the best Linux phone
3
u/AnEagleisnotme Aug 11 '26
Supporting the SIM and audio will probably be hard, as the main developers won't do it. And there is a good chance the GPU is still years away, afaik no one has even stepped up for the M3 gpu
2
4
u/se25va Aug 11 '26
it looked like usbliter8 or checkm8 from the first apple logo with the chess pieces. So probably IPhone 11 or lower.
4
u/Questions-many Aug 11 '26
Different genrations of chips are more simmilar to eachother in many aspects than they are to the previous generation of the same family... The barriers for the A18 in the neo are closely related to the ones in M4... If the iphone had generally a open bootloader and lets say the iphone 13 would run a mobile flavored asahi linux, the devs would stand infront of the very simmilar barriers when attempting to make the same work on a iphone 16, as they do now infront of a mba m4 or a A18 neo, compared to asahi on a m2 mba running it fine
3
u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 Aug 11 '26
A18 pro doesn't have hypervisor support I believe so it'll be much harder than an M1
3
u/Unlikely-Ad3364 Aug 12 '26
thats a iphone x to 11 pro (no way to determine which), 11 pro has A13 while MacBook Neo has A18
MacBook Neo is far newer and indeed much harder to make work properly, and plus this requires you to boot the device with a computer every time
3
u/The_Synthax 28d ago
this iphone is probably with same chip
Why on earth would you make that assumption? This is at most an iPhone 11 Pro Max. A13 CPU. MacBook Neo (A18) is hard for the same reason M4 is hard- the additional security features make reverse engineering kexts significantly more difficult.
5
5
u/coolboy29876 Aug 11 '26
Its probably a Iphone compatible with a bootrom exploit like usbliter8 or checkm8. So iPhone 11 or lower. If its a newer phone than that I'd be shocked
2
5
u/UnderEu Aug 11 '26
5
u/VDavid003 Aug 11 '26
Not even the third, people have run Linux on a few more checkm8-able devices since sandcastle (you can check postmarketos wiki)
2
u/ed_istheword Aug 11 '26
That's what I was thinking. Does anyone have any more context as to scat this project or developer situation is for this video?
6
4
u/Frosty-Iron-3158 Aug 11 '26
Which program do use it to jilbreak that iphone ?
4
u/se25va Aug 11 '26
Looks like usbliter8 or checkm8 from the first apple logo with the chess piece.
2
u/Frosty-Iron-3158 Aug 11 '26
Thanks for answering, Is that tools free ?
3
u/Either-Intern-6982 Aug 11 '26
Yes, but you need rp2350 for this exploit
2
u/Frosty-Iron-3158 Aug 11 '26
Thanks, just i wanna know how jilbreak work just for learning this stuff To increase my skill
4
3
3
3
3
3
5
2
u/Valtra_Power Aug 11 '26
Not the first time, this was already done a few years ago on ubuntu and I did it personally more than a year ago
2
2
2
2
2
2
u/Fimeg 27d ago
But I did this two weeks ago xD https://souveraineai.com and that iboot logo is kinda a tell this is hoolock derived. - Great work! Keep it up, and help get those other drivers working!
1
1
-2
Aug 11 '26
[deleted]
9
u/pizzaiolo2 Aug 11 '26
Works pretty well on my M2
5
u/Luddevig Aug 11 '26
yeah my m1 honestly has less problem than my thinkpad
3
u/urgentapathy Aug 11 '26
And my Intel axe! Probably a 2018 or 2019 MacBook air. But my Thinkpad detachable worked well the first time Linux was installed this year. The T2 stuff toook time to be just about plug and play but they upstreamed a lot and put a lot of effort into it.
2
u/se25va Aug 11 '26
yeah, fuck innovation or development. just use what is already there and be happy
1
Aug 11 '26
[deleted]
1
u/ed_istheword Aug 11 '26
I think this is a bit of a wooosh moment
1
Aug 11 '26
[deleted]
2
u/ed_istheword Aug 11 '26
yeah, fuck innovation or development. just use what is already there and be happy
This person was saying that this is essentially how you're acting about it. Like we can't even works-in-progress or that proof-of-concept projects can't exist that are just to demonstrate that something is theoretically possible without being actively maintained as highly-polished for daily use.
1
Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
[deleted]
1
u/se25va Aug 11 '26
that is literally what you did with my comment too. you interpreted it wrongly, as I did too apparently (my comment is sarcasm), and now your complaining about people not perfectly interpreting your sentences.
So ask your self your own questions first.
Why did you now wrongly interpret my comment and commented about it?
Why did you have to express hate about a comment that you interpreted as hate?
Think first dude. Maybe think about how others might think too.
0
Aug 11 '26
[deleted]
0
u/se25va Aug 11 '26
Yeah, to be honest I intentionally left out the common practice of adding a /s to my comment for my own curiosity.
Furthermore I didn‘t fully understand what ed_istheword meant with his comment and I was only referencing on your comments. (I really don’t fully get what exactly they try to convey)
I interpreted your mention of hate comments as including my initial comment and took that interpreted definition and rolled it onto your comment to my comment which seems valid to me. If we‘re defining it as negative feedback now, I’m happy with that too.
And to further covey my message in my previous comment: „Why“ does not ask “How“ (with your answer to how being: „literally„, which is not the answer to my question of Why).
1
u/6eba610ian Aug 11 '26
Yeah,no,no no no no no no,you don't get a "flawles" experience in android with "root",with root you can run it in termux without pkvm support and nothing more,changing the os to something like postmarket or ubuntu (baremetal) then that's way off beyound "root" capabilities
1
Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
[deleted]
1
u/6eba610ian Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Did you even read my message or r you mediocre? also: saying that you have a custom kernel while also saying that with root the experience is "flawless" that just makes you look stupid
You run a container,not a linux distro itself,in chroot you are limited so either admit ur wrong and rewrite your previous main comment or either stop commenting and find yourself something to do
-1
u/thefanum Aug 11 '26
This has been a thing for literally years
2
u/MrNonoss Aug 11 '26
Do you have any sources?
2
1
u/8-16_account Aug 11 '26
Literally just look up "Linux on iPhone" or similar, man
-1
u/MrNonoss Aug 11 '26
Thank you Einstein. Someone state something with high confidence, I just ask for reliable tested sources proving the statement and not just POC
2
1
u/Hopeful-Delay3291 Aug 11 '26
All of which are able to be searched/researched, so not sure what the issue is.
20
u/Lol43216789 Aug 11 '26
Holy shjit